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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī says that unless we accept this principle that Kṛṣṇa, or God, has got inconceivable power, acintya-śakti, we cannot understand. If we put Kṛṣṇa within the jurisdiction of my limited understanding, that is not understanding of Kṛṣṇa. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye (BG 7.3). That inconceivable power is also within us. We do not know.
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[[Vanisource:730827 - Lecture BG 02.23-24 - London|730827 - Lecture BG 02.23-24 - London]]
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Prabhupāda: So here is another puzzle for the rascal scientist—because they are contemplating that except within this earth, in other planet there is no life. Because the atmosphere is different, they cannot live there. Now take for example the sun planet, fiery planet. So naturally, we shall imagine that no living entity can live there: it is fiery planet. But Kṛṣṇa says that nainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥ: the fire does not burn it. This is quite reasonable because the living entities are there, we can experience.

Roughly we see that we are on the land, and the aquatics, fishes, they are in the water. I cannot live within the water, neither the fish cannot live on the land, but from my experience, if we think that there is no living entities in water, is it not rascaldom? Similarly, these rascals are thinking from his own point of view. Because he cannot live within the fire or within the water, he's thinking there is no life within the fire. This is rascaldom. To refute these rascals, Kṛṣṇa says, nainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥ. Even within the fire there are living entities.

Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam ([[Vanisource:BG 4.1|BG 4.1]]): "I spoke first of all this Bhagavad-gītā system to the sun-god." Now rascals will think that "How there is a god or there is a person in the sun planet?" They'll think like that—everything from his own angle of vision. This is modern science: "I cannot think of such thing; therefore there cannot be any such thing." Just like everything should be within my experience. This is going on.

They'll never admit that "What is your experience? You are imperfect, your senses are imperfect, how you can be perfectly experienced? It is not possible." Acintya. There are so many inconceivable powers acting on behalf of Kṛṣṇa. What are you? You may cheat some people that you have become God. That is another thing. But the inconceivable potency of Kṛṣṇa, they are working differently.

Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī says that unless we accept this principle that Kṛṣṇa, or God, has got inconceivable power, acintya-śakti, we cannot understand. If we put Kṛṣṇa within the jurisdiction of my limited understanding, that is not understanding of Kṛṣṇa. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye ([[Vanisource:BG 7.3|BG 7.3]]). That inconceivable power is also within us. We do not know. So many things are happening. The example, as I gave many times, that the one nail was taken off.

Still, it grew exactly to the size of the nail in my personal body, in the nails. So the doctors cannot make exactly fitting nail, but it is growing exactly to the size. Even it is inconceivable to me how it is growing. Even my hair grows inconceivable, I do not know. I cut every week, and it still grows. There are so many little inconceivable power within me. I am part and parcel of God. Just imagine how much inconceivable power is there in Kṛṣṇa. It is common sense.
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