184 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 14

[Krsna]. Therefore simply by worshiping Lord Krsna one can wor-
ship all living entities.

PURPORT
In Bhagavad-gita (10.8) the Lord says:

aham sarvasya prabhavo
mattah sarvam pravartate
iti matva bhajante mam

budha bhadva-samanvitah

“T am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything ema-
nates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devo-
tional service and worship Me with all their hearts.”” People are very
much anxious to give service to other living entities, especially to the
poor, but although they have manufactured many ways to give such
help, actually they are expert in killing the poor living entities. This sort
of service or mercy is not recommended in the Vedic wisdom. As stated
in a previous verse, it has been decided (niruktam) by expert saintly per-
sons that Krsna is the root of everything and that worshiping Krsna is
worshiping everyone, just as supplying water to the root of a tree means
satisfying all of its branches and twigs.

Another point is that this universe is full of living entities from top to
bottom, on every planet (jiva-rasibhir Gkirnah). Modern scientists and
so-called scholars think that there are no living entities on planets other
than this one. Recently they have said that they have gone to the moon
but did not find any living entities there. But Srimad-Bhagavatam and
the other Vedic literatures do not agree with this foolish conception.
There are living entities everywhere, not only one or two but jiva-
rasibhih—many millions of living entities. Even on the sun there are liv-
ing entities, although it is a firey planet. The chief living entity on the
sun is called Vivasvan (imam vivasvate yogam proktavin aham
avyayam). All the different planets are filled with different types of liv-
ing entities according to different living conditions. To suggest that only
this planet is filled with living entities and that others are vacant is
foolish. This betrays a lack of real knowledge.
