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Elevation to Kṛṣṇa Consciousness
and that someone is superior. No one individual can say, “I am the supreme. No one is above me.” Nor can anyone say, “I am the most inferior. No one is below me.” Once we think that we are the most inferior, we’ll immediately find that someone is inferior to us; and once we think that we are supreme, we’ll immediately find someone superior. This is our position.
God’s position, however, is not like this. In  Bhagavad-gītā  Kṛṣṇa asserts His superiority Himself in this way:
mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva
“O conquerer of wealth (Arjuna), there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.” (Bg. 7.7)
God is  asamaurdha , which means that no one is equal to or superior to Him. If we find someone who has no superior, we can accept him as God. God can be defined as one who has no superior and who has no equal. This is the Vedic version. In the Upaniṣads it is said,  na tat samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate : no one is found equal to or greater than Him.
Another characteristic of God is that He has nothing to do. In the material world, when a man is considered very important, he always has a great number of things to do. The President of the United States, for instance, is considered to be the supreme man in the country, but as soon as there is some