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Is Krsna made out of atoms like we are? When He comes down and takes the food?

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"Is Krsna made out of atoms like we are" |"When He comes down and takes the food"

Lectures

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures

No. Kṛṣṇa is not atom. Kṛṣṇa is big. The biggest. We are atom... That is the difference between Kṛṣṇa and ourself. We are atom. First try to understand how it is spiritual. Of course, in our gross vision, we see, "Oh, we offer this capati to Kṛṣṇa, and Swamijī said namo brahmaṇya devāya, and it becomes spiritual." Yes. It becomes spiritual. How? That we have to understand by the result. Phalena paricīyate. If you eat this spiritual food, you'll get spiritual strength.
Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967:

Bhaktijana: Can Kṛṣṇa...? Is Kṛṣṇa made out of atoms like we are?

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Bhaktijana: Is Kṛṣṇa made out of atoms like we are? When He comes down and takes the food?

Prabhupāda: No. Kṛṣṇa is not atom. Kṛṣṇa is big. The biggest. We are atom. That is the difference between Kṛṣṇa and ourself. We are atom.

Bhaktijana: Kṛṣṇa takes the, er, takes the spiritual matter from the food and leaves us the physical matter...?

Prabhupāda: No. He takes, He takes...

Bhaktijana: When we offer up...

Prabhupāda: ...when He takes, He does not take anything material. He takes spiritual.

Bhaktijana: And leaves the material for us...?

Prabhupāda: No. That is also spiritual. That is not material.

Bhaktijana: What's left, then?

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Bhaktijana: What's left when Kṛṣṇa takes...?

Prabhupāda: That is spiritual. Unless it is spiritual... Just like... First try to understand how it is spiritual. Of course, in our gross vision, we see, "Oh, we offer this capati to Kṛṣṇa, and Swamijī said namo brahmaṇya devāya, and it becomes spiritual." Yes. It becomes spiritual. How? That we have to understand by the result. Phalena paricīyate. If you eat this spiritual food, you'll get spiritual strength. That is practical. Just like I'll give you another example: milk. You take more milk preparation, you get diarrhea. You go to a physician, he'll say, "Yes. Today you take only yogurt mixed with little salt and black pepper." Cured, diarrhea cured. Now, you can say, "The same milk?" But it is treated. Therefore it cures. You can say, "Oh, the same milk? Yogurt is also milk." But it is treated. Therefore it cures. So you'll find that your material disease is being cured by spiritual foodstuff. That is practical. Therefore it is spiritual.

Page Title:Is Krsna made out of atoms like we are? When He comes down and takes the food?
Compiler:Visnu Murti, Rishab
Created:15 of Apr, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1