The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is simply intended to keep us
in constant touch with Krsna. Krsna can be in constant companionship with us
because He is omnipotent. Therefore, He can be fully in touch with us by His words.
His words and He are not different. That is omnipotence. Omnipotence means that
everything relating to Him has the same potency. For example, here in this material
world, if we are thirsty and we want water, simply repeating “Water, water, water,
water,” will not satisfy our thirst, because this word has not the same potency as
water itself. We require the water in substance. Then our thirst will be satisfied. But
in the transcendental, absolute world, there is no such difference— Krsna’s name,
Krsna’s quality, Krsna’s word—everything is Krsna and provides the same
satisfaction.

Some people argue that Arjuna was talking with Krsna because Krsna was present
before him, whereas in my case, Krsna is not present. So how can I get directions?
But that is not a fact. Krsna is present by His words—the Bhagavad-gita. In India,
when we speak on the Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam, we regularly perform
worship with flowers, or with other paraphernalia, as is required for worshiping. In
the Sikh religion also, although they have no form of the Deity, they worship the
book Granthasahib. Perhaps some of you are acquainted with this Sikh community.
They worship this Grantha. Similarly, the Moslems worship the Koran. Similarly, in
the Christian world, the Bible is worshiped. It is a fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is
present by His words. Krsna is also present by His words.

These personalities, either God or the son of God, who come from the
transcendental world, keep their transcendental identities without being
contaminated by the material world. That is their omnipotence. We are in the habit
of saying that God is omnipotent. Omnipotence means that He is not different from
His name, from His quality, from His pastimes, from His instruction. Therefore, the
discussion of Bhagavad-gita is as good as discussion with Krsna Himself.

Krsna is seated in your heart, and in my heart too. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam
hrddese’rjuna tisthati. God is situated in everyone’s heart. God is not away from us.
He is present. He is so friendly that He remains with us in our repeated change of
births. He is waiting to see when we shall turn to Him. He is so kind that though we
may forget Him, He never forgets us. Although a son may forget his father, a father
never forgets his son. Similarly, God, the original father of everything, everybody, all
living entities, will never forsake us. We may have different bodies, but they are our
shirt-coats. That has nothing to do with our real identity. Our real identity is pure
soul, and that pure soul is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. There are 8,400,000
