Supersoul Has Hands Legs Eyes Everywhere

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Bhagavad-gītā 13.14 — October 7, 1973, Bombay 731007BG-BOMBAY [35:50 Minutes] Bg-13.14_731007BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] sarvataḥ pāṇi-pādaṁ tat sarvato 'kṣi-śiro-mukham sarvataḥ śrutimal loke sarvam āvṛtya tiṣṭhati [Bg 13.14] [break]

Prabhupāda: Word meaning. Word meaning. [break] [00:24] Pradyumna: Translation: "Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces, and He hears everything. In this way the Supersoul exists." Prabhupāda: So, we are now discussing jñeyam, the object of knowledge.

Previously we discussed the process of knowledge, amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁsā kṣāntir ārjavam, ācāryopāsanam... [Bg. 13.8]. Twenty items we have discussed. The chief is, mayi cānanya-yogena bhaktir avyabhicāriṇī [Bg. 13.11].

The chief of them is bhakti, mayi ca ananya-yogena, without any diversion. Ananya-yogena bhakti-yoga. That is the chief point. Then other qualities of knowledge will develop automatically.

Yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ [SB 5.18.12]. As soon as you become a pure devotee of the Lord, all the good qualities of the demigods, surāḥ... There are two classes of men: sura and asura. Sura means devotees, and asura means nondevotees.

So good qualities can be found in the suras. Ahiṁsā amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁsā kṣāntir ārjavam [Bg. 13.8]. There are many instances that the devotees are all qualified. Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja, he was only five-years-old boy, and his father was always chastising him, because his only fault was he was chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. So the world is so made, full of demons, that simply for your fault of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra you'll have so many enemies, even your father.

This is the position. Simply for this fault, that because we are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, we have got so many enemies. This is the world. Sura and asura.

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