So asamordhva, that equality and greatness . . . when you'll find a certain man is in such a position that nobody is richer than him, nobody is famous . . . more famous, than him, nobody is more stronger, stronger than him, nobody is more influential than him, nobody is more beautiful than him and nobody is wiser than him—if you find somebody full in six opulences . . . these are the definition given in Vedic literature.
- aiśvaryasya samagrasya
- vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ
- jñāna-vairāgyayoś caiva
- ṣaṇṇāṁ iti bhagaṅ ganā
- (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47)
Bhaga, these opulences.
So you have to find out. You do not accept any cheap God. You just try to find out whether this man claiming as God has no greater than him and no equal to him. Then he is God. This simple test. Don't accept any bogus, so-called God. Just try to put him to the test whether he is actually God. This is the test, that nobody should be greater than him; nobody shall be equal to him. Then he is God.
So in the Vedic literature, in India, you know there were many saintly persons, great scholars from time immemorial. Even not very recently, say, five hundred years ago there were such men, personalities. Now it is almost finished, but still, if you find, you will see there are great sages, saintly persons, who understand the meaning of Vedic literature, and they live up to the standard of Vedic life.
So that is the definition given by great saints and sages, this definition given by Parāśara Muni, a great sage. He was the father of Vyāsadeva. Vyāsadeva is called Veda-vyāsa. His another name is Veda-vyāsa. Veda-vyāsa means . . . his actual name is Vyāsadeva, but because he compiled all the Vedic knowledge in book form. Before the advent of this present age, which is known as Kali-yuga, he compiled all Vedic knowledge.
Before that, there was no necessity of book writing, neither there was facility of printing books. There was no press. People had no necessity of keeping knowledge in writing. There was no necessity. Their memory was so sharp that once heard from the spiritual master, they remembered.
But in this age, in this Kali-yuga, memory, duration of life, mercifulness, stature of the body and so many things, they are reducing. They are reducing. We are not advancing. That is wrong idea. For example, in your country the stature is also reducing. Formerly, in our childhood, I saw Europeans and Americans, they were very tall. But not only in your country, every country the stature is reducing. The memory is reducing.