SB 7.9.30 By seeing Krishna where he is manifest we can learn to see him everywhere

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thank you so Prahlad Maharaj is here talking about the oneness of the creation and the creator he is stating that my that you and this world are non-different, how are they non-different? you existed in the beginning before the world after the world is destroyed you will continue to exist and even when this world appears to be separate from you in the intermediate that time also this world is created by you through the action of the mood swishtva gunavitikaram nijamayayedam so this these gunas are acting by your nijamaya nanevatairavasitas tadnupravishtaha therefore all this is experienced varieties, nana, iva which we experience it’s you who have entered into this so in the bhagavad gita krishna says how he it’s like necklace is unified by the thread similarly he enters into all of creation so Prahlad Maharaj is now after talking about the immediate context where he was protected by the lord is now thinking about how actually the lord is always there although the lord manifested so dramatically for him on that particular occasion but the lord does not desert others at all times the lord is there, it’s just that we can’t perceive him and this is a profound level of god consciousness where we see everything as a manifestation of krishna, his energy, his grace and ultimately he himself so this is not mayavad but this is the vision of devotion Prabhupada would say just as everything connected to the child reminds the mother of the child, similarly everything connected with krishna reminds the devotee of krishna in this world because we in our modern society are so much surrounded and in any ways entrapped by the creations of man, creations of humanity so we can’t really think much about the actions and creations of divinity but even the best creations of humanity are ultimately based on imitations of the original creations of divinity so if we keep this in mind that ultimately it is krishna who is the original creator, it is he who is surrounding us on all sides so when i am speaking and when you are hearing, actually my capacity to speak the way the throat works is arranged by krishna your capacity to hear the whole structure of the ears and the nerves that go to the brain, that is arranged by krishna and in that way actually everything that we are able to do in this world is by the arrangement of krishna and this world is non-different from krishna in the sense that it is the energy of krishna, it can remind us of krishna it can be used in his service so this krishna centered vision of seeing everything as coming from krishna and as everything meant for krishna to be offered to krishna back this ensures that a devotee is never separated from krishna of course we cannot just sentimentally imagine that we have come to the level of seeing everything in relationship with krishna but we will come to that level gradually if we keep steadily practicing devotional service at least when we have the opportunity to directly connect with krishna by chanting his holy names by studying the scriptures by taking darshan of the deities so when we, when krishna manifests himself directly and we connect ourselves with him sincerely then by that sincere intention we will be showing krishna our desire to constantly connect with him and then he will reveal himself in ways that are not so apparent also and then we will be able to connect with krishna in other situations also at other times and then when we come to that level then as the bhagavad gita 6.30 assures us yo mam pashyati sarvatra sarvam chamey pashyati tasyaham na pranashyami sacchamey na pranashyati one who sees me everywhere and sees everything in me for me i am never lost nor is he ever lost to me so that is the stage that pralad maharaj is at even in the vicious clutches of hiranyakashipu he was never lost to narsimhadev nor was narsimhadev ever lost to him and we too can come aspire for and gradually come to that stage by remembering krishna as much as possible in our situations