View source for A devotee, when he understands thoroughly that "Here is one Supreme Person, who is the leader, who is the controller, who is the maintainer of everything," then he surrenders unto Him and becomes His devotee

<div id="compilation">
<div id="facts">
{{terms|"Here is one Supreme Person, who is the leader, who is the controller, who is the maintainer of everything"|"a devotee, when he understands thoroughly that"|"then he surrenders unto Him and becomes His devotee"}}
{{1080 videos navigation|The modern elected executive head of the state is just like a puppet because he has no kingly power. Even if he is enlightened like Maharaja Yudhisthira, he cannot do anything out of his own good will due to his constitutional position|0039|Present life means so long we possess this material body, it is full of inauspicity|0041}}
[[:Vanipedia:Category:Prabhupada 0040 - in all Languages|''' This page has been translated in many languages.''']]			
{{notes|}}
{{compiler|MadhuGopaldas}}
{{complete|ALL}}
{{first|23Feb13}}
{{last|23Feb13}}
{{totals_by_section|BG=0|SB=0|CC=0|OB=0|Lec=1|Con=0|Let=0}}
{{total|1}}
{{toc right}}
[[Category:When A Devotee Thoroughly Understands God]]
[[Category:Understanding God]]
[[Category:Thoroughly]]
[[Category:Here]]
[[Category:One God]]
[[Category:God Is The Supreme Person]]
[[Category:God Is The Supreme Leader]]
[[Category:God Is The Controller]]
[[Category:God Is The Maintainer of Everything]]
[[Category:Surrendering to God]]
[[Category:Surrendered Devotees of God]]
[[Category:Becoming a Devotee of God]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1966 - 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1975]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, Bhagavad-gita As It Is]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - in Asia, Japan - Tokyo]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Pages with Videos]]
[[Category:False Gods - videos]]
[[Category:Imperfections of the Living Entity - videos]]
[[Category:Krsna's Omnipotence - videos]]
[[Category:The Object of Surrender - videos]]
</div>
<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
</div>
<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div id="LectureonBG168TokyoJanuary281975_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="394" link="Lecture on BG 16.8 -- Tokyo, January 28, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.8 -- Tokyo, January 28, 1975">
<div class="heading">A devotee, when he understands thoroughly that "Here is one Supreme Person, who is the leader, who is the controller, who is the maintainer of everything," then he surrenders unto Him and becomes His devotee. You see?
</div>
{{youtube_right|rwP2mBIDD5E|Here Is One Supreme Person <br /> - Prabhupāda 0040}}
<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/clip/750128BG.TOK_clip2.mp3</mp3player> 
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.8 -- Tokyo, January 28, 1975|Lecture on BG 16.8 -- Tokyo, January 28, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There are millions and millions and trillions of living entities, and each heart, He is sitting there. Sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca ([[Vanisource:BG 15.15 (1972)|BG 15.15]]). He is managing like that. So if we think that He is a controller like us, that is our misconception. He is controller. There is controller. With unlimited knowledge and unlimited assistants, with unlimited potencies, He is managing. These impersonalists, they cannot think of that a person can be so unlimitedly powerful. Therefore they become impersonalist. They cannot think of. The impersonalists, they cannot imagine... They imagine, "When one is person, he is a person like me. I cannot do this. Therefore He cannot do." Therefore they are mūḍha. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]). They are comparing Kṛṣṇa with themself. As he is a person, similarly, Kṛṣṇa is a person. He does not know. The Vedas inform that "Although He is person, He is maintaining all unlimited persons." That they do not know. Eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. That one singular person, He is maintaining many millions, many millions, trillions of persons. We are each, every one, we are person. I am person. You are person. The ant is person. The cat is person. Dog is person, and the insect is person. The trees are person. Everyone is person. Everyone is person. And there is another person. That is God, Kṛṣṇa. That one person is maintaining all these varieties of millions and trillions of persons. This is the Vedic in... Eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān, nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). This is the information.</p>

<p>So Kṛṣṇa also says in the Bhagavad-gītā, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo, mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate, iti matvā bhajante māṁ... ([[Vanisource:BG 10.8 (1972)|BG 10.8]]). Therefore a devotee, when he understands thoroughly that "Here is one Supreme Person, who is the leader, who is the controller, who is the maintainer of everything," then he surrenders unto Him and becomes His devotee. You see?</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>