Now we have to understand what is that controller—supreme controller. Here also we have controller. Just like your government, everyone's government, every state government, there is controller. You cannot do anything in defiance of the government law. That is not possible. Similarly, there is a supreme controller. Here we can experience. Just like I am controlling some of my students, but when I enter in your country, I am controlled by the immigration department. Not that freely I can enter your country. So I cannot say that I am not controlled. Or similarly, if you want to go my country, you have to go under some control—the visa, the passport. So nobody can say that "I am not controlled." Everyone is controlled. That is a fact. Everyone is controlled, at the same time he is controller. Just like a person when he goes to work in some establishment, the boss or the master, the proprietor of the firm, he is the controller of that man; but when he comes back to his home, he is the controller of his wife, children or servants. So here we find in this material world, go any man, take any man, just like your President Nixon, he is controlling the government, but he is also controlled by public opinion.
So nobody can say that "I am supreme controller." Nobody can. He is simultaneously the controller and controlled. Nobody can say that "I am fully controller, not controlled." Nobody can say that. But there is a person who is controller but not controlled by anyone. That is God. So this is the conception of God. God means He is controller only, but He is not controlled. So if you find out somebody that He is not controlled but He is controller, that is God. Simple definition of God. Now the Vedic śāstra, the Vedic knowledge, has found that controller. What is that controller? Kṛṣṇa.
- īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
- sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
- anādir ādir govindaḥ
- sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
- (BS 5.1)
By research work, by great sages . . . you know, in India, still there are many saintly persons. They are simply interested with the supreme controller. So by their research work they have found out the supreme person who is simply controller but He is never controlled by anyone. That is Kṛṣṇa.
So we are spreading that Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to let you know the supreme controller and how He is controlling. These things are preliminarily discussed in this Bhagavad-gītā. So our movement is to preach the Bhagavad-gītā as it is and to bring the supreme controller before you and to carry out the order of the supreme controller.