EYES TO SEE GOD WITH...

just like Janmāstamī and Nandotsava Yesterday you had some festival? No That's all right So Nrsiṁhadeva has appeared to convince the atheist [laughter] that there is no God. [chuckles] This is a lying propaganda, that nobody has seen God Everyone has seen God The devotee sees within his heart, in the temple, and everywhere.

And the atheist sees when he's..., when the clock, the handles in the clock are over. You see? Prahlāda Mahārāja was seeing always, constantly, Nrsiṁhadeva Mahābhāgavata Premāñjana-cchurita-bhaktivilocanena santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti [Bs. 5.38].

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Śyāmasundara, Krsna Himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes, whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of love ]

Those who have developed love of God, prema, premāñjana-cchurita When one's eyes are anointed with (...) the ointment which is applied to the eyes for clear vision. So when the ointment of love of Godhead will be applied in our eyes, then with these eyes we shall be able to see God God is not invisible. Simply just like a man with cataract or any other eye disease, he cannot see. That does not mean the things are not existing He cannot see God is there, but because my eyes are not competent to see God, therefore I deny God. God is there everywhere.

So in the material condition of our life, our eyes are blunt. Not only eyes; every sense, especially eyes. Because we are very proud of our eyes, and we say, "Can you show me God?" You see But he does not think that whether his eyes are competent to see God. That is atheism. He does not consider his position, "In what position I am?" Even one cannot see a big man like President Nixon, and he wants to see God without qualification That is not possible https://prabhupadavani.org/transcriptions/n%E1%B9%9Bsi%E1%B9%81ha-caturda%C5%9B%C4%AB-lord-n%E1%B9%9Bsi%E1%B9%81hadevas-appearance-day/

Nāhaṁ prakāśah sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvrtah [Bg. 7.25].

[I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent For them I am covered by My eternal creative potency [yogamāyā]; and so the deluded world knows Me not, who am unborn and infallible.]

Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gītā that "I am not exposed to everyone There is a curtain of yogamāyā " The yogamāyā will not allow to see God. Just like we have our condition that if anyone wants to see here in the temple, we ask him that "First of all take [off] your shoes." Just like a little condition Similarly, to see God, there must be some condition. That condition is that unless you become a lover of God, God is not exposed to you. Otherwise God is there, always Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva hrdayesu [Bs. 5.38].

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Śyāmasundara, Krsna Himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes, whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of love ]

Sadaiva means always Not that simply when we come to the temple we see God. No. God is always visible to the devotee Sadaiva Sadā Sadā means always, twenty-four hours. That is Krsna consciousness. The same example which I gave you, that the woman who has got a lover, and she's very busy in her duties, but she is always thinking of the lover, "When I shall meet him." This is an example given by Rūpa Gosvāmī, that her mind is always engaged in the form or the activities of the lover.

If that is materially possible, when you develop your love of Godhead, at that time you'll see God everywhere, always, twenty-four hours That was the position of Prahlāda Mahārāja. He was seeing always God, Krsna, but his father was not seeing, because he was atheist He was asking, challenging, "Where is your God? You are talking of so many times God All right, I shall teach you a lesson today "

So he took his sword and wanted to kill his own son. Atheist is so unkind, cruel, that he is prepared to kill his own son, beloved son, five years old. That is atheism. And theism: the father who tortured him so much, so after the death of his father, he's praying to Nrsiṁhadeva, "Please excuse my father." This is theism. [...]