God never forgets because He never changes His body; the living entity forgets because it eternally transmigrates.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 4.4 — March 24, 1974, Bombay 740324BG-BOMBAY [37:17 Minutes] Bg-04.04_740324BG-BOMBAY Girirāja: Shall I announce for the people who come in?
Prabhupāda: Why not? Girirāja: [makes announcement] Would all devotees please move forward as much as possible so our friends who are outside... [break] Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] ...proktavān iti... [microphone moving noisily]
Prabhupāda: What is wrong there? Pradyumna: arjuna uvāca aparaṁ bhavato janma paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ katham etad vijānīyāṁ tvam ādau proktavān iti [Bg. 4.4] [break] [02:59] Translation: "Arjuna said: The sun-god Vivasvān is senior by birth to You. How am I to understand that in the beginning You instructed this science to him?" Prabhupāda: Hmm. Where is book? aparaṁ bhavato janma paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ katham etad vijānīyāṁ tvam ādau proktavān iti [Bg. 4.4] Arjuna knew it perfectly well that Kṛṣṇa, his friend, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
But to clarify the matter for others... Because those who are not devotee, they cannot understand Kṛṣṇa or Bhagavad-gītā. That we have explained in the previous verse. Kṛṣṇa says that "The subject matter of Bhagavad-gītā is a great mystery, rahasyam, but because you are My devotee and because you are My friend, therefore, I am again speaking to you the same yoga system which was long, long millions of years ago I spoke to the sun-god." Imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam [Bg. 4.1].
"It is lost now." Sa kāleneha yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa. "Because the paramparā system has been diverted or misused, therefore it is now lost. But still, I shall again repeat the same yoga system, which is very, very old, purāṇam. Although I spoke it first to Vivasvān, the sun-god..." Vivasvān is the present sun-god, or the president.
Just like you have got the president in your country. The Americans, they have got their president. Similarly, each and every planet has got its president. The present..., president is called Vivasvān.