Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.11.42

sūryo 'gnir brāhmanā gāvo

vaishnavah kham maruj jalam

bhūr ātmā sarva-bhūtāni

bhadra pūjā-padāni me

SYNONYMS

sūryah — the sun; agnih — fire; brāhmanāh — the brāhmanas; gāvah — the cows; vaishnavah — the devotee of the Lord; kham — the sky; marut — the wind; jalam — water; bhūh — the earth; ātmā — the individual soul; sarva-bhūtāni — all living entities; bhadra — O saintly Uddhava; pūjā — of worship; padāni — the places; me — of Me.

TRANSLATION

O saintly Uddhava, please know that you may worship Me in the sun, fire, brāhmanas, cows, Vaishnavas, sky, wind, water, earth, individual soul and all living entities.

PURPORT

Unless one understands that Lord Krishna is all-pervading and that everything is resting within the Lord, one's Krishna consciousness is third class and materialistic. It is clearly stated in all Vedic literatures that the Supreme Absolute Truth is the source of everything. Everything is within Him, and He is within everything. To avoid a materialistic conception of Lord Krishna, one should not think that the Lord exists only in a particular time and place. Rather, one should understand that He exists at all times and in all places and that one may search for and find Lord Krishna within all things. The word pūjā-padāni indicates that Lord Krishna is all-pervading, but this does not mean that all things are Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna speaks this verse to clarify His supremacy as the all-pervading Personality of Godhead and to show the path of complete self-realization.

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