True knowledge means understanding Krishna as the Supreme Absolute Truth pervading all creation within and beyond.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 13.13 — October 6, 1973, Bombay 731006BG-BOMBAY [36:39 Minutes] Bg-13.13_731006BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] jñeyaṁ yat tat pravakṣyāmi yaj jñātvā 'mṛtam aśnute anādimat paraṁ brahma na sat tan nāsad ucyate [Bg. 13.13] [break]
Prabhupāda: Word meaning. Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms] jñeyam—knowable; yat—that; tat—which; pravakṣyāmi—I shall now explain; yat—which; jñātvā—knowing; amṛtam—nectar; aśnute—taste; anādi—beginningless; mat-param—subordinate to Me; brahma—spirit; na—neither; sat—cause; tat—that; na—nor; asat—effect; ucyate—is called. [01:22] Translation: "I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. This is beginningless, and it is subordinate to Me.
It is called Brahman, the spirit, and it lies beyond the cause and effect of this material world." Prabhupāda: So this chapter is explanation of the knower and knowledge... The knowledge, the chapter has already explained, in order to make progress in the line of knowledge there were about twenty items: amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁsā kṣāntir arjavam [Bg. 13.8]. These are the process—not to become falsely proud of possessing knowledge. There are symptoms that who is actually in knowledge, and those symptoms have been explained.
Amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁsā kṣāntir ārjavam, ācāryopāsanam. The most important... Of course, all the items are very important. Still, ācāryopāsanam, approaching the ācārya... [break] ...portion of Kṛṣṇa.
Racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭim [Bs. 5.35]. One portion, Paramātmā. That Paramātmā portion is the Mahā-Viṣṇu, Mahā-Viṣṇu lying on the Kāraṇārṇava, the Causal Ocean. yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ viṣṇur mahān sa iha yasya kalā-viśeṣo govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.48] That Mahā-Viṣṇu is lying on the Causal Ocean. Beyond this universe, on the border, there is a big ocean which is called Causal Ocean, kāraṇodaka-jala.
And there is Mahā-Viṣṇu lying, and from His breathing process, yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ [Bs. 5.48]. Jagad-aṇḍa-nātha means Brahmā. So that portion, eko 'py asau racayitum, He is the origin, origin of universal..., this material creation. Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu.
From Him, the Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu comes out, and He enters in each and every universes, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. That Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu again expands as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. That Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is within this universe. In each and every universe there is Viṣṇu, Śvetadvīpa-loka where Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is there, and that Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu enters within the heart of all living entities, Paramātmā, Antaryāmī. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ aṇḍāntara-stha...