Krishna knows all births eternally; we forget even our past life—this knowledge gap defines liberation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — February 8, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740208R2-VRNDAVAN [12:46 Minutes] Conv_740208R2-VRNDAVAN [poor recording] Prabhupāda: “…sun-god is [indistinct] to You. How am I to understand that in the beginning he instructed the science [indistinct]?” So that is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa's appearance, janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti [Bg. 4.9], if you understand Kṛṣṇa's appearance and disappearance, then immediately you become liberated. Because you are not liberated, therefore you are asking these things.
Janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ. If we actually understand Kṛṣṇa in truth, then, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti, then we are liberated. But because you do not know, tattvataḥ, Kṛṣṇa in truth, therefore you are asking this question. Kṛṣṇa exists, Arjuna exists. aparaṁ bhavato janma paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ katham etad vijānīyāṁ tvam ādau proktavān iti [Bg. 4.4] So everything is answered.
If people would study Bhagavad-gītā… But they do not study as it is; they study according to their whims. Therefore we are presenting Bhagavad-gītā as it is, as it is. Kṛṣṇa… If ordinary human being or living entity, he does not die, he is ever-existing—and every living entity is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa—how there can be death of Kṛṣṇa or birth of Kṛṣṇa? If the part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa they are na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20], how Kṛṣṇa can die and again take birth?
Therefore janma karma me divyam. They are all transcendental subject matters. One has to know from the right source; then these questions will be answered. Kṛṣṇa is always there. Kṛṣṇa is not within the time limit— five thousand years or this years or that years.
No. Just like for us today is 8th February, 1973…, ’74—but not for the sun. Our days are changing; the sun is brilliant always. There is no darkness, there is no night.
Is it not? Is it not a fact? So where is the past, present, future for the sun? Past, present, future for you, not for the sun.
Our date has changed, eh, from 7th February to 8th February, but the sun is not changing dates. Is it not? So if the sun, the creation of Kṛṣṇa, is not changing date, how Kṛṣṇa can change His date? We require little common sense.