Bhagavad-gita 7.9

See Krishna in Every Fragrance and Tapasya – The Guru Manifests from Inside and Outside as Caitya-Guru

📅 August 15, 1974 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 29 min
See Krishna everywhere through practice; accept tapasya and the guru as Krishna's representatives guiding you home.
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Bhagavad-gītā 7.9 — August 15, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740815BG-VRNDAVAN [28:48 Minutes] Bg-07.09_740815BG-VRNDAVAN Pradyumna: "I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics." Prabhupāda: So Kṛṣṇa is describing how He is spread everywhere, in details. In the beginning, before this verse, He has mentioned in so many ways. So we can see Kṛṣṇa in every step and every moment.

If we practice to see Kṛṣṇa, it is not difficult. Whenever there is fragrance... Just like rose flower, beauty and fragrance, you can immediately remember Kṛṣṇa, "Here is Kṛṣṇa." Simply we have to practice it. So as soon as you remember Kṛṣṇa or you say or utter the word "Kṛṣṇa," immediately Kṛṣṇa contacts you. You are in contact with Kṛṣṇa immediately.

And if you remain constantly in contact with Kṛṣṇa by studying all these detail, then where is the lack of Kṛṣṇa consciousness? And if you remain always in that way, Kṛṣṇa conscious, then you are the topmost yogī. Yoginām api sarveṣām [Bg. 6.47]. Very easy.

It is not at all difficult. Simply you have to practice. As soon as there is nice fragrance, nice flower... In another place it is said that the nice flower, or any flower that is fructified, there is blooming, that is smiling, smiling of Kṛṣṇa.

So you can see Kṛṣṇa smiling as soon as you see a flower. So I do not know why they say, "Can you show me Kṛṣṇa?" Kṛṣṇa is showing Himself in so many ways; they will not take it. It is not at all difficult to see Kṛṣṇa every moment, in every step, if we study what Kṛṣṇa says: "I am," "This is." Puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṁ ca [Bg. 7.9]. Everything is there. Now, within the earth, the every stock is there.

The flavor of rose flower is there, and the flavor of some other flower is also there, but you cannot take out by your so-called scientific chemical process. You take some lump of earth and extract from it the flavor of rose. It is there. That is a fact.

Because you sow the seed of a rose flower, it will exact the rose flavor from the earth. That's a fact. Who can deny it? Otherwise, wherefrom the flavor is coming?

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