The Sky Beyond the Universe ol

The only hope for a man fallen in the middle of
the ocean is that someone will come and pick him
up. If someone just comes and hauls him but a few
feet out of the water, he is immediately relieved.
Similarly, if we are somehow lifted from the ocean
of birth and death by the process of Kysna con-
sciousness, we are immediately relieved.

Although we cannot perceive the transcendental
nature of the Supreme Lord, His name, fame and
activities, if we establish ourselves in Krsna con-
sciousness, gradually God will reveal Himself before
us. We cannot see God by our own endeavor, but if
we qualify ourselves, God will reveal Himself, and
then we will see. No one can order God to come be-
fore him and dance, but we do have to work in such
a way that Krsna will be pleased to reveal Himself to
us.

Krsna gives us information about Himself in
Bhagavaad-gita, and there is no question of doubting
it; we just have to feel it, understand it. There is no
preliminary qualification necessary for the under-
standing of Bhagavad-gita, because it is spoken from
the Absolute platform. The simple process of chant-
ing the names of Krsna will reveal what one is, what
God is, what the material and spiritual universes are,
why we are conditioned, how we can get out of that
conditioning and everything else step by step. Actual-
ly the process of belief and revelation is not foreign
to us. Every day we place faith in something that we
have confidence will be revealed later. We may pur-
chase a ticket to go to India, and on the basis of the
ticket we have faith that we will be transported
