14 Krsna Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System

Krsna? They are doing it, and it can be done. You can develop
love for anything if you try for it. But Krsna development is
very natural. Because Krsna is not a thing belonging to a parti-
cular type of religion or sect. Krsna claims, “I belong to every-
one.” Therefore, originally, we are all connected with Krsna;
but we have simply forgotten. This process of chanting is to
evoke your remembrance of Krsna. It is not that we are
inducting something artificially into you. No, Krsna is already
connected with you, but you have forgotten. And we are trying
to give you the process for reviving your original consciousness.
So you can come to our temple; that is the beginning. You can
see Krsna or Krsna’s devotees, and you can chant Hare Krsna.

Krsna is not different from His name because He is absolute.
He is nondifferent from His words. The name Krsna and the
person Krsna are not different. Because everything is Krsna.

Oneness, the philosophy of monism or pantheism, is imper-
fect. When that oneness comes in understanding Krsna, that is
perfection. If Krsna is the Supreme Absolute Truth from whom
everything is emanating, then everything is Krsna. Just as you
have a gold mine and are preparing so many golden utensils and
ornaments and many other things. But they are all gold because
the original is gold. So you may name it “earring,” but you
have to add “gold”—golden earring. You may name it “neck-
lace,” but it is gold, because originally it came from the gold-
mine. Similarly, originally, everything is coming from Krsna.

If He is Supreme, the Absolute Truth, then nothing is
different from Him. Just as, whether you say earring or neck-
lace or bangle or wristwatch, these are all made of gold, and so
they are gold. But, at the same time, you cannot say that this
is all gold—you must say, “Thisis a gold necklace. This is a gold
earring.” The mayavadin, or impersonalist, will say that every-
thing is Brahman. But “everything is Brahman” is not right.

This is very nicely explained in the Gita, in the Thirteenth
Chapter: “I am expanded all over. That is My impersonal
