38 Krsna Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System

stage is the process of Krsna consciousness. Krsna is seated
everyone’s heart, and as you become purified He will show
you the path. And in the end you will quit this body, and you
will go to the spiritual sky.

“No one knows Me,” Krsna says, “My influence, My power
and my extent. Even the maharsis [the great thinkers] don’t
know. I am the origin of all demigods and the origin of all
rsis.”’ There are so many forefathers we don’t know of, an
there are Brahma and the demigods—what do we know? W
can’t reach to the platform where we can grasp God. We gather
knowledge by limited senses, and Krsna can’t be reached by the
mind, the center of the senses. Imperfect senses can’t grasp
perfect knowledge. Mind and sense manipulation can’t reac
Him. If you engage the senses in the service of the Lord, how-
ever, then He will reveal Himself through your senses.

People may say, “What is the use of understanding God?
What is the use? Let Him stay in His place, let me stay in m
place.” But in the sastras, the scriptures, it is stated that piou
activities will raise us to beauty, knowledge and good birth;
and that by impious (sinful) activities, we suffer. Suffering is
always there, pious or impious, but a distinction is made. He
who knows God, however, becomes freed from all possible
sinful reactions, which no amount of piety can accomplish. If
we reject God we can never be happy.

Not even considering human society, if you take the demi-
gods who are more advanced and intelligent, they also don’t
know Krsna. The seven great sages whose planet is near the
North Star also do not know. Krsna says: “I am the original,
the source of all these demigods.”’ He is the father of every-
thing, not only the origin of demigods, but of the sages—and the
universe. The Srimad-Bhagavatam describes how the universal
form took place, and everything is emanating from Him. Also
Krsna is the origin of Paramatma, the Supersoul; and the
impersonal brahma-jyoti, the shining effulgence, is in Him. Of
