The Goal of Yoga
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feature.” Kṛṣṇa is everywhere in His impersonal feature, but still He is a person. The  māyāvāda  philosopher thinks that if Kṛṣṇa has become everything, then where is the possibility of Kṛṣṇa here, apart? This is complete rascaldom because it is thinking in a material way. There is no spiritual knowledge.
In the material way, suppose you take a piece of paper and tear it into particles and throw it all over. The original paper has no existence. This is material. But we get information from the  Vedas  that the Absolute Truth is so perfect that if you take away the whole, still the whole remains. One minus one equals one. The material way of thinking is one minus one equals zero; but spiritually it is not like that. Spiritually, one minus one equals one, and one plus one equals one.
Kṛṣṇa is everything. The  māyāvādins , the impersonalists, see our Deities here and say, “Oh, they have installed some wooden forms, and they are worshiping them as God.” But one who knows Kṛṣṇa science understands that Kṛṣṇa is everything and therefore can appear in everything. With electricity, the current is everywhere along the line, so wherever you touch you will feel it. Similarly, the Kṛṣṇa current in His impersonal form is everywhere, and it is the technician who knows how to use the force. Before we have a phone installed, we have a telephone conversation, and we simply inform the person, before we even talk money, that he should come immediately to find out where the connection can be made. And he comes out and does his work; and we do not notice, because he knows the technique. So, one must know how to connect with Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is everywhere—this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But one must know how he can derive Kṛṣṇa from the features of Kṛṣṇa’s form in wood or iron or metal.
You have to learn how to contact Kṛṣṇa everywhere in everything. That is explained in the system of  yoga . Kṛṣṇa consciousness is also  yoga , the perfect  yoga , the highest of all yogic systems. A  yogin  may come, and we can challenge him,