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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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I am not absolute controller. The absolute controller means who is not controlled by anyone else. He is never controlled by māyā. That is absolute controller. How God can be controlled by māyā? Therefore this Vedic term is used here, svarāṭ. He is not controlled.
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[[Vanisource:720321 - Lecture SB 01.01.01 - Bombay|720321 - Lecture SB 01.01.01 - Bombay]]
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Vyāsadeva says that He is ''abhijñaḥ'': He is perfectly conversant, He is perfectly in knowledge, but ''svarāṭ. Janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ. Svarāṭ'' means "completely independent." There is no need of taking knowledge from others. That is God. Not that I am now in ignorance. The Māyāvādī theory is that, "I am now in darkness under the clutches of ''māyā'', and when ''māyā'' is finished, then I am God." The answer is if you are actually God, how you are captured by ''māyā''? Then ''māyā'' is greater than you. But it is understood that God is great, nobody can be greater than God; so if ''māyā'' captures God, then ''māyā'' is greater than God.

So this theory is not very intelligent theory, that God has become captured by ''māyā''. No. ''Māyā'' can capture this small god, just like we are. As I explained yesterday, ''īśvara. Īśvara'' means controller. So every one of us, somehow or other, we are controller. At least we control my . . . our children, wife, at home. So in that sense everyone is controller. But ''śāstra'' says that ''īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ'' (Bs. 5.1): the supreme controller is Kṛṣṇa. He has no controller. I am controller, but when I go to my office, immediately I find my boss a controller. Although I am very strong controller on my children or on my wife or servant—I am very strict man—but as soon as I go to my office, immediately I am controlled by my boss. That is my position.

So I am not absolute controller. The absolute controller means who is not controlled by anyone else. He is never controlled by ''māyā''. That is absolute controller. How God can be controlled by ''māyā''? Therefore this Vedic term is used here, ''svarāṭ''. He is not controlled. ''Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ'' (Bs. 5.1), ''svarāṭ''. And Kṛṣṇa also says in the ''Bhagavad-gītā, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.7 (1972)|BG 7.7]]): "There is no other controller above Me."

And Kṛṣṇa, when He was present, He was not controlled by anyone. Even if we suppose that Rādhārāṇī controls Kṛṣṇa, but actually He was not even controlled by Rādhārāṇī. That we have seen. When Kṛṣṇa left Vṛndāvana, all the ''gopīs'', they would not allow Him to go away to Mathurā. But still He did not . . . Kṛṣṇa did not care for them; He left Vṛndāvana. So He is not controlled by anyone. ''Svarāṭ'': fully independent.
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