Krishna remembers everything because He never changes His body; we forget because we constantly transmigrate through different forms.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 4.5 – February 13, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740213BG-VRNDAVAN [19:17] Bg-04.05_740213BG-VRNDAVAN [poor recording] Pradyumna: [leads chanting, devotees repeat] Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Prabhupāda: No other copies? Yes? bahūni me vyatītāni janmāni tava cārjuna tāny ahaṁ veda sarvāṇi na tvaṁ vettha parantapa [Bg. 4.5] Find that verse. Pradyumna: [leads chanting, etc.] śrī-bhagavān uvāca bahūni me vyatītāni janmāni tava cārjuna tāny ahaṁ veda sarvāṇi na tvaṁ vettha parantapa [Bg. 4.5] śrī-bhagavān uvāca—the Personality of Godhead said; bahūni—many; me—of Mine; vyatītāni—have passed; janmāni—births; tava—of yours; ca—and also; arjuna—O Arjuna; tāni—all those; aham—I; veda—do know; sarvāṇi—all; na—not; tvam—yourself; vettha—know; parantapa—O subduer of the enemy. [03:45] Translation: “The Blessed Lord said: Many, many births both you and I have passed.
I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!” Prabhupāda: So, bhagavān uvāca. The Supreme Personality of Godhead says that the distinction between God and the living entities. The rascal philosophers, they think that they are equal to God, but God does not say that “You are equal to Me.” What does He say? God says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat [Bg. 7.7]: “There is nobody superior than Me or equal to Me.” Therefore His name is Asamordhva: “Nobody is equal nor higher than Me.” Therefore God is there; that is the meaning of God is there.
If God has anyone equal to Him or greater than Him, then what kind of God He is? Ask these rascals’ God, the so-called God, “Do you think if anyone is equal or higher than you?” If he says, “Nobody is higher than me,” then anyone can insulted him, anyone can arrest him. How he can say that nobody is higher than him? So therefore, particularly, particularly the word Bhagavān, nobody can be equal or greater than the Supreme Person, and foolish persons should be kept as absolute, not relative.
He says, “Arjuna, the difference between you and Me—that you forget; I do not forget.” That is it. God knows past, future and present—everything. Just like the sun is there in the sky, and this earthly planet is here. So the earthly planet is rotating, and the sun is there on the head of the earthly planet. So our, this rotating means day and night, but the sun planet has no day and night; no past, present or future—everything is present.
It is a commonsense example: the sun planet is rotating where it is. The sun is back side it is night, and the front side it is day—so day and night for us, not for the sun. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is compared with the sun: kṛṣṇa—sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra [Cc. Madhya 22.31].
And our this darkness is a māyā, because actually there is no darkness. The sun is always there, but on account of position of the earth, we are thinking this is night, this is day. In the material creation the sun, in the biggest of all planets, there is no such thing as māyā, or night. So why Kṛṣṇa would have māyā?