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<h3>General Lectures</h3>
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When you speak of God or any big personality, he has got his associates. Just like your President Nixon. When you speak of Mr. Nixon, it means his secretaries, his office, his paraphernalia, government, so on. Not alone. Similarly, when we speak of God, God means with His associates, with His energy, with His power, everything.
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[[Vanisource:720510 - Lecture - Honolulu|720510 - Lecture - Honolulu]]
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Person is Kṛṣṇa. From the person the effulgence, the illumination, is coming. That is called brahmajyoti. And in that brahmajyoti everything is resting. From the brahmajyoti innumerable universes are coming—effulgence from the body of God. The example you can very easily understand, that the shining, the sunshine, is emanating from the sun globe, and the sun globe is a planet where the sun god is there. Sun god is there. Not only sun . . . when you speak of God or any big personality, he has got his associates. Just like your President Nixon. When you speak of Mr. Nixon, it means his secretaries, his office, his paraphernalia, government, so on. Not alone. Similarly, when we speak of God, God means with His associates, with His energy, with His power, everything.

So God is expanded everyone. Lord Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ avyakta-mūrtinā ([[Vanisource:BG 9.4 (1972)|BG 9.4]]): "I am spread everywhere, all-pervading, in My impersonal feature." Mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ. Tatam idaṁ means, "I am expanding everywhere." Here is also God. Where you are sitting, there is God. Everywhere. God is all-pervading, exactly like the sunshine.

Although you are in this room, this sunshine is within the room, you know, all. Because it is daytime, the sunshine is there in the sky. The sunshine is always there in the sky, but it becomes night on account of my eyes being covered, on the juxtaposition of the earth. The sun is there, always. Similarly, when we cannot see God by some reason or other . . . God is always there. He is all-expanding, everywhere, but we cannot see because our eyes are covered.

But this cover, this covered eyes can be uncovered. There is process. What is that process? That process is to develop your love of God. This is also very simple to understand. If you love somebody—you are all young boys and girls, naturally you are attracted either with some boy or some girl—but if you actually have got love for him or her, you will always see. You will always see. This is a practical example. Similarly, if you develop your love of God, then you will be able to see God everywhere, at every moment. It is not very difficult.
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