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Prabhupāda: ...the real meaning of Sanskrit means "reform." It is not whimsical, just like in English language, "beauty but, peauty …

Similarly, the Sanskrit word, equivalent word of the English word "God," is Bhagavān. Bhaga... God... Generally described, "God is great." …

There are three positions. Just like we are sitting here: somebody is equal to me, somebody is greater than me …

Nowadays there is a disease, to declare oneself as God, "I am God." And there is regular propaganda that everyone …

So bhaga... Bhaga means opulence. And what are the opulences? That also we can very easily understand. If one man …

So asamordhva, that equality and greatness... When you'll find a certain man is in such a position that nobody is …

aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ jñāna-vairāgyayoś caiva ṣaṇṇāṁ iti bhagaṅ ganā

[Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47]

[Full wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation—these are the six opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.]

Bhaga, these opulences.

So you have to find out. You do not accept any cheap God. You just try to find out whether …

So in the Vedic literature, in India, you know there were many saintly persons, great scholars from time immemorial. Even …

So that is the definition given by great saints and sages, this definition given by Parāśara Muni, a great sage. …

He compiled all Vedic knowledge. Before that, there was no necessity of book writing, neither there was facility of printing …

But in this age, in this Kali-yuga, memory, duration of life, mercifulness, stature of the body and so many things, …

Your grandfather or great-grandfather, perhaps he lived for hundred years. I saw. My grandmother lived for ninety-five years. My father …

So because our human assets are reducing... Practically there is no mercifulness now, dayā. Formerly a man was very charitable, …

So Vyāsadeva gave us this Vedic literature. His father, Parāśara Muni, gave us the definition, the understanding of God, what …

So how you can find out a person who is the richest man within this..., not within this world; within …

So therefore, if you try to understand who is God by corroborating the definition of God, it is very difficult …