74 On the Way to Krsna
aham sarvasya prabhavo
mattah sarvam pravartate
iti matva bhajante mam
budha bhava-samanvitah
“T am the source of all spiritual and material worlds.
Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know
this perfectly engage in My devotional service and
worship Me with all their hearts.” (Bg. 10.8)

The Vedanta-sutra also confirms that the Absolute
Truth is He from whom everything is born. If we
truly believe that Krsna is the origin of everything,
and if we worship Him, our whole account is closed
in one second. But if one doesn’t believe and says,
“Oh, I want to see what God is,” he has to go by
stages by realizing the impersonal Brahman effulgence
and then Paramatma, the localized feature, before
finally coming to the last stage of realizing, “Oh,
here is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” It
should be understood, however, that this process
takes more time. When one through many years of
research comes to realize the Absolute Truth, he
concludes vasudevah sarvam iti—‘‘Vasudeva is all
that is.” Vasudeva is a name for Krsna, and it means
“He who lives everywhere.” Realizing that Vasudeva
is the root of everything—mam prapadyate—he sur-
renders. The surrendering process is the ultimate
goal; either one does it immediately or after many
births of research work. In either case, surrender
must be there by realizing that “God is great, and I
am His subordinate.”
