Can Krishna be interchanged with any other god as our object of worship?
If you want to get free from fear can we replace Krishna with some other God yeah so the point here is that there is a cultural conception of God there is a philosophical definition of God and there is a spiritual revelation of God the three different things cultural conception so cultural conception means that we have brought God in particular culture and maybe in that culture there were so many different Gods and Krishna happens to be one of them so he is one God among many Hindu Gods which we have so this is the conception which we have got from our culture we go beyond that there is a philosophical definition of God that philosophical definition is sarva karana karana the cause of all causes that from which everything comes that is the definition of God so if we look at the Bhagavad Gita and broadly speaking it is not in the Bhagavad Gita if you look at the Bible, if you look at the Quran, the attributes of God that are described the Bhagavad Gita says I am the first letter the Bible says I am the alpha and the omega of all things there are many different books which may talk about God in terms of the attributes of God that are described they are very similar so when we come to philosophical definition of God there is no question of having many Gods there is only one supreme being so as I said even if you say the cause of all causes the source of everything the source of everything has to be one it cannot be many so in that sense for the time being put the cultural conception aside and look at the philosophical definition the Bhagavad Gita is describing God in terms of philosophical definition that is universal beyond that there is spiritual revolution so who is God actually we are at the material level of consciousness so present we can't perceive who God is we can analyze and we can the philosophical definition of God makes sense but in terms of spiritual revelation it's when we become purified when our consciousness becomes spiritualized then who God is is revealed to us so now there have been great saints in the past who have devoted themselves and they have got certain realizations so the Vedic scriptures describe that God is a person who has six attributes that is wealth, fame, knowledge strength, renunciation beauty not only does he have these six attributes he has them in his zenith in the fullness and there are many leelas which Krishna has performed in which he does not state these attributes so say somebody just comes into this room and says I am the president of America oh really how do I know whether that person is the president or not person may if that person is the president that person should have the power if they decide that the army should move the army will move, the US army the US Navy, so the president you know from the power of the president so there is an objective definition of the president these are the powers the president must have and there is a particular subject a particular person, if that person has those powers he must say ok this person is the president so like that the Bhagavad Gita uses the objective definition of God and there it presents as a spiritual revelation this is God and there are other scriptures in the Bhagavatam where his activities are described where he demonstrates these powers so the if we stick to cultural conception we may feel that God is just an interchangeable there can be an interchangeability in the object of worship but if we understand the philosophical definition, there has to be one object of worship now who that particular object is that we will realize when we get the spiritual revelation, but till then we can use our analysis and the scriptures give us analysis the Bhagavad Gita gives us analysis the scriptures give us analysis there is an objective criteria of what God should possess and Krishna possesses that, so therefore we consider Krishna to be God but it is not that we consider it is based on just our feelings it is based on.