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Kṛṣṇa Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System
stage is the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kṛṣṇa is seated everyone's heart, and as you become purified He will show you the path. And in the end you will quit this body, and you will go to the spiritual sky.
“No one knows Me,” Kṛṣṇa says, “My influence, My power and my extent. Even the  maharṣis  [the great thinkers] don't know. I am the origin of all demigods and the origin of all  ṛṣis .” There are so many forefathers we don't know of, an there are Brahmā and the demigods—what do we know? We can't reach to the platform where we can grasp God. We  gather  knowledge by limited senses, and Kṛṣṇa can't be reached by the mind, the center of the senses. Imperfect senses can't  grasp  perfect knowledge. Mind and sense manipulation can't reach Him. If you engage the senses in the service of the Lord, however, then He will reveal Himself through your senses.
People may say, “What is the use of understanding God? What is the use? Let Him stay in His place, let me stay in my place.” But in the  śāstras , the scriptures, it is stated that piou activities will raise us to beauty, knowledge and good birth; and that by impious (sinful) activities, we suffer. Suffering is always there, pious or impious, but a distinction is made. He who knows God, however, becomes freed from all possible sinful reactions, which no amount of piety can accomplish. If we reject God we can never be happy.
Not even considering human society, if you take the demigods who are more advanced and intelligent, they also don't know Kṛṣṇa. The seven great sages whose planet is near the North Star also do not know. Kṛṣṇa says: “I am the original, the source of all these demigods.” He is the father of everything, not only the origin of demigods, but of the sages—and the universe. The  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  describes how the universal form took place, and everything is emanating from Him. Also Kṛṣṇa is the origin of  Paramātmā , the Supersoul; and the impersonal  brahma-jyoti , the shining effulgence, is in Him. Of