Devanagari
वस्तुतो जानतामत्र कृष्णं स्थास्नु चरिष्णु च ।
भगवद्रूपमखिलं नान्यद् वस्त्विह किञ्चन ॥ ५६ ॥
Verse text
vastuto jānatām atra
kṛṣṇaṁ sthāsnu cariṣṇu ca
bhagavad-rūpam akhilaṁ
nānyad vastv iha kiṣcana
Synonyms
vastutaḥ
—
in fact
;
jānatām
—
for those who understand
;
atra
—
in this world
;
kṛṣṇam
—
Lord Kṛṣṇa
;
sthāsnu
—
stationary
;
cariṣṇu
—
moving
;
ca
—
and
;
bhagavat
—
rūpam — the manifest forms of the Personality of Godhead
;
akhilam
—
everything
;
na
—
nothing
;
anyat
—
else
;
vastu
—
substance
;
iha
—
here
;
kiṣcana
—
at all .
Translation
Those in this world who understand Lord Kṛṣṇa as He is see all things, whether stationary or moving, as manifest forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such enlightened persons recognize no reality apart from the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Those in this world who understand Lord Kṛṣṇa as He is see all things, whether stationary or moving, as manifest forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such enlightened persons recognize no reality apart from the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa.
KB 10.14.56-57
Without being an expansion of Kṛṣṇa, nothing can be attractive.
Whatever is attractive within the cosmic manifestation is due to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is therefore the reservoir of all pleasure. The active principle of everything is Kṛṣṇa, and highly elevated transcendentalists see everything in connection with Him. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is stated that a mahā-bhāgavata, or highly advanced devotee, sees Kṛṣṇa as the active principle in all moving and nonmoving living entities. Therefore he sees everything within this cosmic manifestation in relation to Kṛṣṇa. For the fortunate person who has taken shelter of Kṛṣṇa as everything, liberation is already there. He is no longer in the material world. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā: Whoever is engaged in the devotional service of Kṛṣṇa is already on the brahma-bhūta, [SB 4.30.20] or spiritual, platform. The very name Kṛṣṇa suggests piety and liberation.
Purport
Everything exists within Lord Kṛṣṇa, and Lord Kṛṣṇa exists within everything. Still, the order of progression is always from the energetic to the expanded energy. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the original identity, from whom all other identities emanate. He is the supreme energetic, from whom all categories and dimensions of energy become manifest. Thus, our personal bodies, self, family, friends, nation, planet, universe and so on are all manifestations of the Supreme Lord, who expands Himself through His personal potencies. Lord Kṛṣṇa is certainly the supreme object of our love and attraction, and other objects, such as body, family and home, should be secondary objects of our affection. Moreover, a close analytic study of the actual situation will reveal that even the secondary objects of love are also manifestations of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The conclusion is that Lord Kṛṣṇa is our only friend and object of love.
In his
Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Śrīla Prabhupāda comments on this verse as follows: “Without being an expansion of Kṛṣṇa, nothing can be attractive. Whatever is attractive within the cosmic manifestation is due to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is therefore the reservoir of all pleasure. The active principle of everything is Kṛṣṇa, and highly elevated transcendentalists see everything in connection with Him. In the
Caitanya-caritāmṛta
it is stated that a
mahā-bhāgavata,
a highly advanced devotee, sees Kṛṣṇa as the active principle in all moving and nonmoving living entities. Therefore he sees everything within this cosmic manifestation in relation to Kṛṣṇa.”
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
After considering all the objects of love such as sons, body and soul, it is concluded that Krsna is the final object of love. In this verse the word vastutah (in truth) has the sense of "but finally". Those who know Krsna see him as the cause of all moving and non moving entities and also the effect.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
In order to say that Kṛṣṇa is the supreme form for not only all jīvas but for inanimate objects also, he first explains the greatness of Kṛṣṇa among all forms.
In truth, in this world for those who consider carefully, all living and inanimate objects and all forms of the Lord such as Nārāyaṇa, are included in Kṛṣṇa (iha). Anything that is not in him does not exist. By knowing the cause one knows the result. By knowing the aṁśī one knows the aṁśa. When the cause is absent, the result is absent. Everything else is like foam on the waves in a huge ocean. Everything is like photons external to the sun globe. It is said in the Second Canto:
so ’yaṁ te ’bhihitas tāta bhagavān viśva-bhāvanaḥ |
samāsena harer nānyad anyasmāt sad-asac ca yat ||
Bhagavān, maintainer of the universe, has thus been described in summary. The universe and jīvas are none other than the Lord, but arise from the Lord who is different from them. SB 2.7.50
Purport (Sanatana Goswami)
Bhagavān is defined. He is directly realized as the highest cause, in which all things reside. Nothing other class of things exists. Or this verse expresses the results of proper knowledge. For those who know that Kṛṣṇa is the soul of all beings everything manifests as the abode of the Lord: the Lord resides in everything.
In order to say that Kṛṣṇa is the supreme form for not only all jīvas but for inanimate objects also, he first explains the greatness of Kṛṣṇa among all forms.
In truth, in this world, for those who consider carefully, all living and inanimate objects and all forms of the Lord such as Nārāyaṇa, are included in Kṛṣṇa (iha). Anything that is not in him does not exist. By knowing the cause one knows the result. By knowing the aṁśī one knows the aṁśa. When the cause is absent, the result is absent. Everything else is like foam on the waves in a huge ocean. Everything is like photons external to the sun globe. It is said in the Second Canto:
so ’yaṁ te ’bhihitas tāta bhagavān viśva-bhāvanaḥ |
samāsena harer nānyad anyasmāt sad-asac ca yat ||
Bhagavān, maintainer of the universe, has thus been described in summary. The universe and jīvas are none other than the Lord, but arise from the Lord who is different from them. SB 2.7.50