All powerful means

Expressions researched:
"all-powerful means"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Lecture on SB 3.25.5-6 -- Bombay, November 5, 1974: Bhagavān means most powerful, all-powerful.

aiśvaryasya samagrasya

vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ

jñāna-vairāgyayoś caiva

ṣaṇṇāṁ bhaga itīṅganā

(Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47)

Bhagavān, all-powerful means that aiśvaryasya, all opulence, all wealth, all reputation, all knowledge, all beauty, all renunciation. In this way, Bhagavän is opulent.

Lectures

Sunday Feast Lecture -- Atlanta, March 2, 1975: We say God is almighty, all-powerful, but we have no idea what is meant by "all-powerful." We think that all-powerful means "I am so much powerful. He may be ten times powerful than me." Or somebody says, "twenty times." "All right, let us compromise. Fifty times." (laughter) This kind of speculation is like the frog's speculation within the well.

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- April 8, 1974, Bombay: All-powerful means not that "I cannot do, I cannot, I can do this only." No, anything He can do. That is all powerful.

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

"Life Comes From Life" Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.: One may challenge, "How a person can know everything?" So Kṛṣṇa immediately replies that "I help him specifically." Teṣām evānukampārtham. "Just to show My personal, especial favor upon him, I light up the torch of knowledge, and he knows everything." So if Kṛṣṇa helps one to know everything, who can check it? That is not possible. This science must be there. We are not all-powerful. Kṛṣṇa is all-powerful means He can do everything.