Why Doesn’t God Just Appear so we Can See Him?
November 25, 2010 by Madhudvisa dasa
Filed under Letters, Preaching
Why is it that God does not just manifest Himself? Wouldn’t that end all the disbelief in the Lord? Wouldn’t that end atheism completely? I am trying to comprehend this matter Wouldn’t it be a billion times easier for everyone from devotee to doubter if the Lord just manifested himself today before us all? I am very confused on this matter. I am a believer from faith but am still confused. Your friend, Tom
Dear Tom
Hare Krishna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I have been well. Thanks for asking.
Your question is a very good one. Why does Krishna not just appear before us.
The thing is we do not have the eyes to see Krishna. Krishna does sometimes appear before us in the material world but only the devotees recognize Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You may think it strange but when Krishna was present on this planet 5000 years ago in India very few people recognized Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He displayed so many pastimes impossible for any human to display. He lifted a great mountain when he was only 5 years old. He fought with and killed so many powerful demons, he was so amazingly beautiful that everyone was attracted by Him. But still most were thinking He was some extraordinarily powerful man, perhaps a demigod.
When Lord Caitanya appeared 500 years ago in India also He was not recognized by many as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He purposely did not manifest the opulence’s of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and acted as a pure devotee of Krishna, not as Krishna Himself.
The problem is that if people see Krishna appear in this world they will imitate and claim to be Krishna also and mislead so many people into worshipping them as Krishna. So Lord Caitanya, although Krishna Himself, was acting as a devotee of Krishna and showing by His personal example that we should serve Krishna, not try to become Krishna ourselves.
Basically we are here in this material world because of our desire to imitate Krishna. Krishna has all opulence’s in full. Krishna has all knowledge, all wealth, all strength, all fame, all beauty and at the same time, even though He possesses everything in full, He is completely detached. We are here trying to imitate Krishna, trying to get all the wealth, all the knowledge, etc. But it is not possible, Krishna is unlimited in every respect and we are limited in every respect. We will never be equal with Krishna, we will always be less than Krishna and our natural position is to serve Krishna.
Krishna is here, if you have the eyes to see Him. He is present in the form of the Holy Name, the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, and if you can chant that purely you will experience Krishna dancing on your tongue. He is present in the form of the Deity in the Temple. He is present within all our hearts as the supersoul. His energy is causing everything to happen in the material world. Anything beautiful, anything powerful, anything extraordinary in this world is showing us a small hint of the opulence’s of Krishna.
So a devotee when he makes some advancement starts seeing Krishna everywhere. He experiences Krishna in the taste of water, he sees Krishna in the light of the Sun and the Moon, he sees Krishna when he hears any sound. Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita that “I am the ability in man,” so when a devotee sees someone with a very special ability in any field he sees Krishna.
The bottom line is that to see Krishna one’s eyes have to be purified. We can not see Krishna with impure eyes. And the process to purify our heart and our eyes is to chant the Hare Krishna mantra and to engage in the service of Krishna. Even if Krishna did appear personally before us today in the United States most would not accept Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even if He performed activities that were not humanly possible. Still those whose eyes are not purified can not see Krishna. Even if He is standing right there in front of them in person.
It is not that they can not see Him actually, they see Him, but do not recognize Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Even Lord Brahma, when Krishna was on the Earth 5000 years ago playing as a cowherd boy in Vrindavana, became bewildered. He did not recognize Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His lord and master, so what to speak of ordinary people?
It is great to hear from you again. If you have more questions please write.
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
Why doesnt Krsna just give us the ability to SEE him EASILY in all his POWER then?
This is a simply question that is often side-stepped.
Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that “I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My eternal creative potency [yoga-māyā]; and so the deluded world knows Me not, who am unborn and infallible.”
http://prabhupadabooks.com/?g=2685
So Krishna can not be seen by the non-devotees. Seeing Krishna is not so easy.
Even if Krishna did appear personally in front of the non-devotees they would not believe He was God… That is their nature…
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
We all r souls,parts of GOD.God wants we all live cheerfuly.Then why did he sent us to earth to obtain so many pain & pressure?Can we nt stay near by HIM?
Why HE did so?
This question I have answered many, many, many times…
We came here to the material world not because God wanted us to come here, but because we wanted to come here. God advised us against coming here but we came here anyhow. Why?
Because we have the disease that we want to be God. We want to be the controller. Because of this disease we can not stay in the spiritual world where everyone is engaged in serving God.
It is not our constitutional position to be the controller, to be God, we are all servants of God. So when we come here to the material world and try to be the controller, try to be god, naturally we will suffer in so many ways.
As a result of this suffering for many, many births some thoughtful souls will wake up and realize that they do not belong here and will surrender to Krishna and go back home, back to Godhead. But while we keep the mentality of trying to be the controller, trying to be the enjoyer we will be born in this material world again and again to suffer more and more.
That is not God’s doing, it is our doing. We are the cause of our own suffering.
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
From Where does Krisna get these three energies (immaterial/ material and Marginal)? Where does these energies come from?
Thanks.
Hare Krishna John
Krishna is eternal. It means He does not come from anywhere. He has always existed and He will also always exist in the future.
And Krishna’s energies are always there with Krishna. They have also always existed in the past and will continue to always exist in the future.
So Krishna’s energies come from Krishna. They are always there with Krishna. As Krishna is eternal, His energies are also eternal.
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
Hello.
Thank you for this wonderful website.
Actually I am 17 years old. Sincerely, ever since I’ve been discovering Lord Krishna’s splendor, I have been taking less and less interest in the material world. I am kind of tired with this world of sufferings and injustice.Yet, at school I need to work hard for my parents who have had to endure a lot for me. Besides, people have always laughed at our family since we were relatively poor. My parents have a lot of faith in me.
I’ve then taken shelter in Lord’s refuge. I’ve become vegetarian and given up my bad habits to please Him. It was a very long struggle as neither my parents nor my friends are vegetarians. Also, at my age I have been lured on unadventured territories, just like any other adolescent. I’ve always had to figure things by myself. Many a times, I went on the wrong path. I used to cry silently to the Lord and sought His help. My parents cannot even imagine through what ordeals I went through.Although most adolescents find their newly found source of pleasure entertaining and continue with it, I gave up for the sake of Kanha.
I’ve grew to love my kanha murti deeply, more than myself.I fought with Him, laughed with Him, cried with Him. I could not stay away from Him. By showing me various hints, He even guaranteed me that I would get the results which I wanted. I’ve suffered too much to get it anyway.
However there are times where I think that He does not appreciate my love for Him. I’ve told Him to manifest Himself, He didn’t. I desperately want to see Him. I cry for hours for Him to give me as much as a glimpse from him. He does not respond.He does not even come in my dreams. The next morning when I wake up disillusioned, I get fed up with everything. I then feel stupid because it seems as though I do not exist for Him, when he knows perfectly that I would die without him.
My question is: why does Kanha play with my feelings like this?
I am faithful to Him. I perpetually think about Him, sing His melodies. Yet, why does He behave as such?
Thank you in advance. It’s something I would have never asked anyone because nobody would have the answer except God but through you, it seems that I will get my answer
Krishna IS manifesting himself all around you all in front of you its just that He wants you to identify Him in every being every flower every leaf every material molecules atoms.. all this scientific masterpiece called world is Krishna Himself
He becomes a flower to see a smile on your face,He becomes a song to say his heart He is the sun and also the sunshine He is the cloud and also the rain He is the river and also the sea
we all are living with Him in Him and our unconditional love will make us identify Him
Hare Krishna
Dear Dona
Its unbelievable that you’ve felt the grace of Lord. As I read your letter I fixed up my mind to say you something.
its my story, I was also 17 three years ago, I was in high school where every one else was used to laugh at me and I had no friends. It became the situation that I was the only one who was alone and had nobody to talk to him. At that time Our religious Teacher told us to buy SreemadVhagabadGeeta,the words of Lord SreeKrishna. Every evening of my lonely days I read that Holy Words by the Lord. It took two Years to finish reading The Geeta.
So My condition of heart and Mind became fused with Lord Krishna. I used to cry seeking his help when I felt hopeless in those days. I used to chant his name throughout the whole day, It gave me faith, hope and strenght to fight the odds. And Yes, I saw him.
So after years, this morning in Bangladesh, when I read your letter, I thought of those days I seen him.
Now I’m not a man who knows much about The Lord like Madhudvisa Dasa and Pravupada Swami, but I want to let you know what I did, and by which means I could see Him in my ways. Its not difficult to see Him or Feel him. All you need to do is ask forgiveness of the sins if you have sins. Thats what I did, I confess that I havent seen him physically in my room, but truly speaking, I could literally feel his existance around me. And I believe I felt His touch as he forgave my sins and gave me strength to live and Study.
Its really feels good now when I remember that how I passed those days, without my parents and family in that school away from home and holding the blessings of God.
So thats how I find my way to tell you: The only thing we need to do is keep the faith,don’t let your love turn to hate. I dont know it will be published or not but I hope you’ll read this letter.
sanat
Bangladesh
Hare Krishna…
Dear Madhudvisa dasaji,
My warm regards to you.
I have a doubt in my mind about karma. If I do something bad to someone, it gets returned to me through someone else in this birth or in the next births. So that person who is giving back my bad karma will be affected by its fruits? If so why and how? Because he is only punishing me. Please throw some light into this.
Thank you.
Deepti Kumaresh
Hare Krishna Deepti
It is a very nice question. Karma is very intricate. If we take the example of money. If you take some money in the form of a loan from someone and do not pay it back then die and the other person whom you borrowed the money from also dies you will both have to take birth again in the material world. Because you still owe him that money. So you will have to take birth and he will have to take birth and you will have to pay your debt to him. So the karma is a great entanglement that effects everyone involved and causes everyone involved to take birth in the material world over and over again to get what they deserve and pay to others what they owe them.
It is said that a woman who has an abortion for example after she dies will be placed in a mother’s womb again and will be killed by that mother. She will not be able to take birth. She will be put in the womb of another mother and be killed again by that mother. But still the mother is going to suffer the same reaction for killing the child. But the child she is killing is being killed because that child killed her child in her previous life.
So it works like this. If one kills a cow then he has to take birth and be killed as many times as there are hairs on the cow. So you can see how we can create so many lives of suffering from this one human birth.
As far as your example, if you do something bad to someone in this life then you have to suffer someone else doing something bad to you in the next life. He may also come back in the next life and do something bad to you, but if it is not him then the other person will get also a reaction to this and will have to come back again. This is the way karma works. It is endless. No matter what you do you become more and more entangled and have to come back for an unlimited number of births. That is why in the material world we are called “nitya-baddha,” it means eternally conditioned. It is practically impossible to get out of the material world. It is impossible to get out of the material world.
The only hope is brahmananda brahmate kona bhagavayan jiva guru krsna prasade paya bhakti lata bija: “We are wandering life after life from one universe to another and occasionally one fortunate living entity gets a chance to associate with a bona fide spiritual master and he can get the ‘bhakti lata bija,’ the seed of the tree or creeper of bhakti.” So this is the secret. The only way of getting out of this endless tangle of karmic reactions is by getting this seed of bhakti from the pure devotee spiritual master. We have this very rare chance now. Srila Prabhuapda is distributing these seeds to us very freely. But it is not just enough to get the seed. If you get the seed of a very valuable plant then you have to cultivate it, you have to plant it and supply it with water and protect it and it will gradually grow into a very strong plant. So what is that cultivation? Sravan kirtan jal. The water for the bhakti-lata-bija is hearing and chanting the name and glories and the pastimes of Krishna.
The thing is we have to stop performing activities that generate karma. Otherwise we will be forced to come back again and again and again because of those karmic reactions. How is that possible?
For a devotee if he lives in such a way that he never does anything for his personal benefit, if he does everything as service to Krishna, then there is no karma from that. For example we are vegetarian and even in vegetarian cooking still sometimes we are going out into the garden and taking a cabbage and chopping off its head and cooking it. Now if we do that for ourselves then that will be a sin because we are killing that cabbage for our own purposes. But if we are cooking for Krishna, and we are offering the meal to Krishna, then it is for Krishna and there is no sin or reaction. Because we are doing it for Krishna.
So we need to transform our lives so everything we do is for Krishna…
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
“hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare,hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare” i chant this mantra and everybody should do this.
There are only “Three” entities in this countless universes.
1. “Jeev”
2. Maaya
3. Bhagwaan (Shree Krsna)
We all living entities including Ant to Elephant, Trees and Plants, all are “Jeev”.
Definition of “Jeev”: “One who lives and help others to live”.
“Jeev” has limited energy. A “Jeev” is always under “Maaya”. A “Jeev” was under the influence of “Maaya” from minus infinity.
It is not that, one day it was been thrown under “Maaya”.
There are also some “Jeev”, who are not under “Maaya”. (Sanakaadi Saints).
All “Jeev” longs for “Aananda”. “Aananda” is nothing but “Being Unlimitedly Happy, At All The Time, Forever”.
Definition of “Aananda”: “Get Increasing Unlimited Happiness Forever”.
“Aananda” is the name of Shree Krishna. Krishna himself is “Aananda”, Its not that, there is Aananda in Krishna.
Its like to say “An Ocean is huge mass of water”, Its not that there is water in ocean.
Since all “Jeev” longs for Aananda, all “Jeev” are theist. But “Jeev” is confused that “Aananda” exists in wealth, sex and power.
An alcoholic feels that “Aananda” is in drinking “Alcohol”. A Bad leader feels that “Aananda” is in ruling others by odd means.
Like wise a Saatwik “Jeev” feels “Aananda” is in helping others. A Taamasi “Jeev” feels that Aananda is in sex, Alcohol, Drugs, degrading, Harassing others.
Bhagawaan or Shree Krishna is the controller of “Maaya”. It is obvious that Krishna wants each and every “Jeev” to come to his abode and live happily with him.
When Krishna himself is the controller of “Maaya”, he can even lift off “Maaya” covered upon “Jeev”. But it is not happened till now. Why?
Because there is one condition put by Krishna in Bhagawad Geeta: That is unless and until “Jeev” surrenders himself completely cent per cent, Krishna wont remove his “Maaya” which is covered upon the “Jeev”. “Sarva Dharmaat Parityaag Maam Ekam Sharanam Brij”. – Geeta.
I AM 12 YEARS OLD.WELL I AM REALLY INTRESTED IN MAHABHARAT. BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND MEANING OF DHARMA. IS IT A DHARMA TO KILL OUR SIBLINGS OR RELATIVES?I AM A DEVOTEE OF KRISHNA HOW TO FIND HIM?
Hare Krishna Aura
Dharma means that thing which can not be separated from us. It is easier to understand with some examples. For example sugar. Sugar has to be sweet, if I give you something that is not sweet and tell you that it is sugar then will reject it. You will immediately say “this is not sugar” because the sweetness can not be taken away from sugar. If I give you something that is not sweet it is not sugar. So sweetness is the dharma of sugar. Water is wet. You can not take the wetness away from water. So it is like that. Therefore to discover what is our dharma we have find that thing which is our very existence, which can not be separated from us. After some contemplation you will come to understand that every living entity is engaged in service. He can not avoid serving. On a personal level he is trying to satisfy or serve his senses, and to serve his senses he needs to get some money so to get the money he has to find a job and serve the boss and serve the customers. Then if he finds a nice lady he gets married and he has to serve her by supporting her. And when children come he has to serve the children.
You can not find anyone in the world who is not engaged in this business of service. Even the most powerful person, even the President of India or the President of the United States, they are only elected to their positions because they promise to serve the people and if they do not serve the people the will be thrown out of their big position.
So the thing that can not be changed, the thing that is always present with us is that we are servants. That is our dharma. So there are many things we can serve in the material world, but this sort of service is not our eternal dharma, or sanatana dharma. Sanatana Dharma means engaging in the service of Krishna. So that is what Krishna is teaching Arjuna in the Bhagavad-gita. He is teaching Arjuna that his business is to surrender to Krishna and do what Krishna wants him to do. The political situation was such that Arjuna had to kill his relatives and friends in the Battle of Kuruksettera because Krishna wanted him to. That is the real reason. Krishna wanted it. So from the Bhagavad-gita Arjuna understood that he should do what Krishna wants and Krishna wanted him to fight with his relatives and family members so he fought the battle.
As far as finding Krishna we can not find Krishna on our own strength. We can only find Krishna by the mercy of Krishna’s pure devotees. So we have to please Krishna’s pure devotees by surrender and service and by their mercy we will find Krishna for sure.
So there is not much point looking for Krishna because He will not reveal Himself directly like that. He is in our hearts but He has given us the process of approaching Him in the Gita and that is not directly approaching but via the spiritual master. So you can find Krishna by the mercy and blessings of Srila Prabhupada. If you takes seriously to reading Srila Prabhupada’s books the more you become purified the more you will see Krishna.
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
I believe in Lord Krishna as a supreme God and do not worship other demigods of Hindu religion, I am spiritual not a religious hindu person, I believe in chanting the names Lord krishna as the only worship in kaliyuga.
But I was thinking of the below questions which came into my mind.
Why does Lord Krishna choose India as his home. why not other parts of the world. How will some one in other continent at that time know that God is living in India 5000 years ago.
Why are all holy places and temples of Vedic religion like vrindavan Dwarka Puri only in India. Why not in Australia or Chile or Japan or Alaska.
Why did Mahabharata war happened only India, what was happening in other parts of the world in other continents during lord Krishna’s time on the earth.
Were the whole continents joined during the time of Mahabharata War.
Hare Krishna Abhijit
Krishna and His empowered representatives appear all over the world, all over the universe, in every society, to reestablish the principles of religion when they are not being properly followed. But India is special of course. It is punya-bhumi, and there is only one place like India in the whole universe. There is only one Vrindavan in the universe and it is India. And when Krishna appears He appears in Vrindavan, in India. So we are very fortunate to have the great opportunity of taking birth on this planet and those who are born in India are extremely fortunate to have taken birth there. It is said that the demigods are queuing up to take birth in India while the pastimes of Lord Caitanya are going on.
So India is a very special place, not just on this planet, but in the whole universe, and Vrindavan and Mayapur and the many other holy dharms in India are there particularly in India because India is meant for that, punya-bhumi, it is supposed to be a pious land where they people are all practicing Krishna consciousness. Of course now they are programming computers and running call centers for the Americans. It has gone off track somewhat. But still the holy dharmas are there and the place itself has that spiritual atmosphere.
The other parts of the world are for different purposes but still it is not that Krishna and his representatives do not appear outside India. He appears everywhere, but in India, because it is punya-bhumi, He appears and presents the absolute truth, but of course even in India Vedavayasa has written a lot of politics and demigod worship and ultimately became unsatisfied with this and got the message from his spiritual master Narada Muni to simply write about Krishna and that is how we have Srimad-Bhagavatam, the ripened fruit of the desire tree of Vedic knowledge.
So India is special but any bona fide religious process is a part of the Vedas. So Christianity, Muslims, etc., are also supposed to be following the devotional principles and worshiping the Supreme Lord to the extent that it is possible for them to do it in their culture. So in the ‘big picture’ they are not outside the Vedic religion.
Back in the time of Maharaja Yudhisthara, he was the king of the whole world. So at that time the whole world was following the Vedic principles. Over time it has deteriorated, so much so that now even in India they are not following the Vedic principles.
So anyhow I hope that helps.
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
Hare Krishna Madhudvisa dasa,
I have realized the power of Krishna in the past 4 years. I simply have to chant his name to feel complete bliss. I can’t explain how I feel. However, my understanding is still very limited. Which is why your teachings are so important to people like me. Please answer one question I had. If the soul is Nirguna, it can have no desires and wants. Then why do you say that the soul desires to imitate Krishna and hence Krishna lets us enter the material world?
Vivek
Hare Krishna Vivek
Your ideas are contaminated by the impersonal and mayavadi philosophies that are so prevalent in India and now all over the world. The idea that the soul can ‘have no desires and wants’ is completely false, completely incorrect. Actually the soul is eternally existing and eternally has desires and wants. These desires and wants, however, can be of two very different types. A materialist has material desires and a transcendentalist has spiritual desires.
These impersonalists that you have obviously been hearing from of course are transcendentalists. But they have no knowledge of Krishna and the spiritual world. They have no spiritual conception so they can not imagine spiritual desires. They have, through jnana [knowledge], come to the realization that all desires and wants in the material world ultimately end in frustration and suffering only. So, having no knowledge of the spiritual world or Krishna or devotional service, the only thing they can think of doing is to try and give up desires and wants. But this is an artificial position for the living entity. The living entity is eternally active and these impersonalists are falsely trying to become inactive, inert, desireless…
This is an artificial position that can not be maintained. That is why even if the impersonalists manage to become liberated from the material concept of life and even experience brahmanananda, because there are no spiritual activities for them there is really no transcendental pleasure for them. And we, the living entities are anandamayabasat, it means our constitutional position is to enjoy ever-increasing transcendental pleasure. The impersonalists can not experience this pleasure. There bliss is simply a relief from the sufferings of the material world but they have no positive spiritual engagement and no real transcendental pleasure and no spiritual activities to engage in. So they fall down. The impersonalists always fall down and come back in the material world again, which previously they renounced as false, brahma satyam jagat mithya, but they come back in this so-called false world and start opening hospitals and doing other philanthropic work. So why do they do they bother if this world is false? It is because they have no activities or pleasure in their brahman ‘liberation’ so they have to come back to the material world and engage in some sort of activity.
So this is proof that the soul is eternally active and eternally has desires and wants.
Krishna consciousness is the science of transforming those material desires and activities into spiritual desires and transcendental activities. There are activities in spiritual life. Devotional service means using our intelligence, our energy, our time, our money, everything, in the service of Krishna under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master. And this service and activity and desire is eternal and we will continue serving Krishna and being active and having desires even after going back home back to Godhead.
The word nirguna in the sastra does not mean that the living entity has no form, no desires, no activities, no wants. NO. It means he has no material form. Actually we do not have any material form. This material form, our material body is not us, it has nothing to do with us. It is a temporary outer covering. So this is what nirguna means. We have no material form. But we have a spiritual form. And we have a spiritual body which engages in spiritual activities in the service of Krishna in the Spritual world.
And even in the spiritual world we still have a small amount of independence. In the spiritual world everyone is engaged in the service of Krishna, but they are not forced to serve Krishna, they are serving Him out of love. So this mood of voluntary loving service to Krishna requires that the servants of Krishna must have the independence to not serve Krishna if they do not want to serve Krishna. That is our minute independence and that is the quality of the jiva-tattva living entities. We are tatastha. It means marginal. It is like the area of the beach which is sometimes covered by the water of the ocean and sometimes not. We are like that. We eternally have the tendency to fall down into the material world. So the residents of Vaikuntha can fall down if they want to. Of course we have the statement of Krishna that upon reaching the spiritual world they never come back to the material world again. And of course this is true, because they can remember their activities in the material word when they go back to the spiritual world. So why would they want to come back. But still they have their independence. That is eternal. And if they want to misuse their independence they can come back again to the material world. That is the independence of the jiva-tattvas and Krishna will never take this little independence away from us…
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
This is Dasha of Russia, Just see the occult phenomena of God, Meteriods collapsed on that country where the Bagvad Gita was banned and this is the reternal truth of God’s existance. As I saw in OMG Film in our country but we saw the justice of GOD in truth. So, Truth is Truth !.
Why did Krishna create marginal energies or souls? Why does he need so many souls to love him? Your views seem to suggest an egoistic Krishna and I know that’s not what you mean for us to understand. Please clarify. Hare Krishna
Of course these things are a bit hard to understand for us because we have no conception of spiritual. It is different to material. It is not really that Krishna created he marginal energies although on the other hand we understand the living entities are all expansions of Krishna and then the question comes as to when did the Krishna expand the jiva souls. But this is a problem with us trying to superimpose our material experience as to how things are created in the material world on Krishna in the spiritual world but it is different and we have no way of actually understanding and conceiving of this. There are many things like that in Krishna consciousness, that are avan manasa gochara, beyond the ability of our minds to conceive of and beyond the power of our senses to perceive. So what I am basically saying is that you will not be able to understand the answer to this question until you become Krishna conscious…
So become Krishna conscious.
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa