Religion teaches that “God is good, God is great,” but that is just external. To actually know the science of God requires a much deeper level of teaching and realization. By studying Bhagavad-gītā, we can understand not only that God is great, but we see what kind of God He is, and come to know His real form, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ. Why do we accept Kṛṣṇa as God?
We have heard in the śāstras, the Vedic scriptures, that:
īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇah
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
“Kṛṣṇa, who is known as Govinda, is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal, blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin, and He is the prime cause of all causes.” [Brahma-samhita 5.1]
Now the Vedic scriptures accept Kṛṣṇa as īśvara parama, or the supreme controller, and He is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, the very form of eternity, unlimited consciousness and bliss. How does He appear as sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha? This is described elaborately in the Esoteric Teaching, especially in Bhagavad-gītā and Srīmad-bhāgavatam. Those who were present in the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra saw the sac-cid-ānanda form of Kṛṣṇa, but those who were nondevotees could not understand Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even though He appeared before them in His sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, His eternal form of unlimited bliss.
avajānanti mām mūḍha
mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam
param bhāvam ajānanto
mama bhūta-maheśvaram
“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be.” [Bhagavad-gita 9.11]
Because He appeared just like a human being, the mūḍhas, the less intelligent people—literally, the Sanskrit word mūḍha means ass—could not understand that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the defect of the mūḍhas. They may be very great academic scholars, but in the matter of understanding God, they’re mūḍhas, fools and āsses. Why?
na mām duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ
prapadyante narādhamāḥ
māyayāpahṛta-jñānā
āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ
“Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, who are lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons do not surrender unto Me.” [Bhagavad-gita 7.15]
At the present moment, we are in the midst of Kali-yuga, the age of darkness and materialism. Therefore people are mostly āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ. Āsurī bhava means to defy God: “Why are you trying so hard to find God? There is no God. God is dead. I am God. You are God. So many Gods are loitering in the street (daridra-nārāyaṇa).” That is the philosophy of the mūḍhas; they do not really know anything about God, but speculate some false philosophy. They think God is so cheap that anyone can become God.
Graduallywe will expose all the fallacies of their speculative theories. But we can immediately understand the real meaning of God from the Esoteric Teaching of Bhagavad-gītā: Bhagavān, or the unlimited ocean of all spiritual opulence.
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