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<div class="heading">God means controller. Īśvara. Īśvara means controller. God means controller. So He is controlling you. It is material but it is not under your control. You are under its control. So if anything is controlling you, that is God. God means controller. If you cannot see Kṛṣṇa, you can see the sun.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 1, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- May 1, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is asking you that "You realize Me." "No, I cannot see You." "No, why 'Cannot see You'? Here is water. You are drinking water." "Yes." "I am water. I am the taste of the water. Why don't you see Me?" ''Prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.8 (1972)|BG 7.8]]): "I am the sunshine." So who is not seeing the sunshine? Why the rascal says: "I do not see God"? God says, "I am here." But he says, "I do not see." Liars.

If you are in my front, if I say, "Here I am," if you say, "No, sir, I don't see you," what is this? Similarly, God is before you in the form of sunshine. Don't you see the sunshine? Why do you say that "I do not see God?" Who has not seen the sunshine? In the morning, very early in the morning, you see God. That is Gāyatrī ''mantra''. ''Oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur vareṇyaṁ bhargo devasya.'' That is the obeisances to the sun. ''Savitṛ. Savitṛ'' means . . . ''savitā'' means sun.

In the very beginning you see God by the sunshine, and then think of the sunshine, how much potential it is, how everything is being produced by the sunshine. As soon as there is no sunshine, we become disturbed, so many business become disturbed. So why don't you understand that without God's presence, we cannot do anything? Where is the difficulty? Does it require any very big philosophical speculation? The rascal will not admit as directed in the Vedic literature. That is their fault. Otherwise, where is the difficulty? No difficulty. What is the explanation of these scientists of the sunshine?

Svarūpa Dāmodara: They say the sunshine is just some . . . sun is a . . . there is a gaseous material, very hot temperature. So the rays are coming from the sun . . .

Prabhupāda: That's all right, but it can kill you. Is it not? So when did you accept with God? Sunshine, if it increases a little temperature, millions of you will be killed immediately. So why don't you accept sun as God? Therefore, according to Vedic principles, sun in the beginning is accepted as God.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: They take it as a material object.

Prabhupāda: Then accept you are under its control. God means controller. ''Īśvara''. ''Īśvara'' means controller. God means controller. So He is controlling you. It is material, but it is not under your control. You are under its control. So if anything is controlling you, that is God. God means controller. If you cannot see Kṛṣṇa, you can see the sun.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: So sun is the product of Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Yes, energy. ''Yac cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala grahāṇām'' (Bs. 5.52). Sun is working under the order of . . . just like if you don't see the managing director or the proprietor of a firm, the immediate boss who is controlling you, you have to obey—in the office or in the factory. Similarly, you cannot see directly God, but God's agent is working. Why don't you obey? God's agent is working.

How it is working? ''Yasyājñayā bhramati saṁbhṛta-kāla-cakraḥ'', exactly in time by the order of Kṛṣṇa, rising exactly in the time, without any deviation even by one ten-thousandth part of a second, astrological calculation. Is it not? So how it is working? Under whose order it is working? ''Śāstra'' says, "By the order of Kṛṣṇa." ''Yasya ājñayā''. "Under whose order he is working," ''govindam ādi-puruṣam'', "I worship that Govinda."

The ''śāstra'' is giving you information that he is working under . . . he must be working under . . . Otherwise, why it is so accurate, so punctual, unless there is some direction? Unless there is order of God, why this big ocean is so obedient, it is not coming here? Why don't you study like this? Where is the difficulty? There must be some direction, that "You Pacific Ocean, you are so big, that's all right, but you cannot come here.

Remain up to this." Otherwise, why you are feeling so safety, although in the front of a big ocean? If the ocean likes, within a second he can finish it immediately. But she will not do, because there is order. Similarly sun. Sun is also moving under the order. You have to study like that. If you do not see God, see how God's order is being carried out. Then you will understand.