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I will give you freedom from all reactions.” Don’t disbelieve it.
He can give you shelter; He has all power. If I give you such a
promise, because I have no such power I may break the
promise.

If you associate yourself with Krsna consciousness your dor-
mant relationship with Krsna will be evoked. You have a rela-
tionship with Him. There is no question of disbelieving; it is
simply foolishness. The dormant relationship is there. You
want to serve Krsna, but simply by the spell of illusion we
think we have no connection with Krsna. We go on doing all
“independent” nonsense, and we are always anxious. When we
associate with these dormant feelings for Krsna, however, we
will become engaged in Krsna consciousness.

“God is unborn” indicates that He is different from the
material world. We have no such experience of the unborn.
This city was born—history is filled with dates. Spiritual nature,
however, is unborn, and at once we can see tie difference. The
material nature is born. You have to understand; if Krsna is
unborn then He is spiritual, not like one of us. Krsna is not
some “extraordinary person who was also born.” He is not
born. So how can I decide He is an ordinary man? “Those
who are fools and rascals think of Me as an ordinary man,”
Krsna says in the Gita. He is different from everything in this
world. He is anddi, without cause.

Krsna may be spiritual, but there are other spiritual bodies.
We have spiritual bodies like Krsna’s, but they are born. They
are not exactly born; it is like the sparks of the fire. The sparks
are not born from the fire; they are actually there. We are also
not born; we are sparks that come out of the original form.
Even if we are not born, the spark comes out of Krsna, so we
are different; the sparks of the fire are fire, but they are not tine
original fire. As for quality, we are the same as Krsna. It is like
the difference between father and son. Father and son are
different and nondifferent at the same time. The son is an ex-
