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<div class="heading">Here in this Bhagavad-gītā, that Bhagavān is giving you knowledge. So how much perfect it is, you have to consider. Vyāsadeva could have said, "śrī-vyāsadeva uvāca." No. Bhagavān uvāca, so authoritative. So whatever He says, there cannot be any change. It is all perfect. Unfortunately, we rascals, we do not take Bhagavad-gītā as it is. We want to change it according to our whims. This rascal havoc has ruined the whole world. Otherwise, if they would have preached Bhagavad-gītā as it is, the world situation would have been different. Everything would have been in order, tranquility, peace, and everybody would have been prosperous.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.11 -- Mauritius, October 1, 1975|Lecture on BG 2.11 -- Mauritius, October 1, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So this is knowledge. This is knowledge. So the Supreme Person is Bhagavān. ''Bhaga'' means six kinds of opulences: the richest, the most powerful, the wisest, the most beautiful and the most influential, and the most renounced at the same time. Just like this whole cosmic manifestation is created by the will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but you will not find Him here. Disinterested. Many millions of universes are working by His will, but He is not interested. The example is just like a big capitalist. He has got many factories, and if you go to the factory—there is a Tata factory, iron factory—you will find huge factories going on, but Mr. Tata is not there. Things are going on. Similarly, all cosmic manifestation going on, it is under the will of Kṛṣṇa. But He is not present here.

That is explained in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'', ''mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni'' ([[Vanisource:BG 9.4 (1972)|BG 9.4]]): "Everything is resting on Me." Any factory, every worker knows that the whole factory function resting on that supreme person. He knows that. So actually fact is that ''mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni nāhaṁ teṣu avasthitaḥ'': "But I am not there. I am not there." Similarly, Bhagavān means that. Under His will, under His power, everything is working so nicely, systematically, but if you want to see God, Kṛṣṇa, you cannot see Him. He is not there. He is in Goloka Vṛndāvana. But His influence is so extensive that even without His personal presence, things are going on so nicely. This is called Bhagavān. Bhagavān means this.

So here in this ''Bhagavad-gītā'', that Bhagavān is giving you knowledge. So how much perfect it is, you have to consider. Vyāsadeva could have said ''śrī-vyāsadeva uvāca''. No. ''Bhagavān uvāca'', so authoritative. So whatever He says, there cannot be any change. It is all perfect. Unfortunately we rascals, we do not take ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is. We want to change it according to our whims. This rascal havoc has ruined the whole world. Otherwise, if they would have preached ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is, the world situation would have been different. Everything would have been in order, tranquility, peace, and everybody would have been prosperous. But the rascals will not do that. That is the defect. 

Therefore our tiny effort is how to present ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is. This is our mission. If we take . . . even now, in this distorted condition of the world, if we accept ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is, then still we will be benefited. There is no doubt about it. Therefore our appeal is that throughout the whole world people should come, try to understand ''Bhagavad-gītā'', and set up examples and do the needful. Then everything will be peaceful. This is the peace formula. ''Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram'', ''suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29 (1972)|BG 5.29]]). ''Suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānam''. ''Suhṛt'' means well-wisher. Well-wisher. Here is the supreme well-wisher. He wants, Kṛṣṇa wants that wherever you live, you live peacefully and happily; therefore He is called ''suhṛt''. He is desiring everyone's happiness. Therefore He comes Himself to advise, to instruct how to live, how to follow His instruction, and He leaves these behind Him such books as ''Bhagavad-gītā'', and He sends His representative occasionally to revive our consciousness. 

This business is going on, not only in the human society, even in the animal society. Anywhere, even in demigod society, things are going on like that. Therefore we should know, whatever Bhagavān says, there cannot be any mistake, any illusion, any cheating or any imperfectness. Then it will be very nice. And that is the fact. The word used, ''bhagavān uvāca'', means this instruction is neither mistaken nor illusion nor cheating nor imperfect. Whatever we teach, we speak, we conditioned soul . . . as I said, that we are very much proud of our eyes, but we cannot see without sunrise . . . we cannot see without electricity. But that is our defect. We are possessing everything defective, still we are proud, "We are perfect." That is cheating. We are not perfect. But Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, is not like that. If we think Kṛṣṇa is also like us, ''avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīm'' . . . ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]). Because He teaches exactly like a human being, He appears, therefore we think, "Oh, He may be little more intelligent than me. After all, He is like me." No. He is Bhagavān. We have to understand.