Seeing Krishna Everywhere

yo mām pasyati sarvatra

sarvam ca mayi pasyati

tasyāham na pranasyāmi

sa ca me na pranasyati

For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me. (BG 6.30)

In this verse, what Krishna is saying is that if you can see Me everywhere and see everything in me, I am never lost to you, and you are never lost to me. Krishna’s instructions are focusing your mind so you can see Him everywhere. This verse is important because Krishna is giving Arjuna the exact vision of what will happen if you surrender to Him. A specific example of what I mean that Krishna is everywhere, is seeing him as the supersoul through  everyone else’s soul.

This verse connects to my life because it’s telling me what exactly I need to do in Krishna consciousness. I need to see Krishna everywhere and see everything in Krishna, so Krishna is never lost, nor am I ever lost to Him. Actually, one time in school, I was thinking about this verse and a new kid walked in. By seeing Krishna everywhere, I could see him as a spirit soul and not a “fat kid” as what other kids thought.

In class this previous Sunday, we were talking about equal vision. To have equal vision, you need to see everyone as a spirit soul of Krishna. I think it relates to this verse because you have to see Krishna everywhere to see everyone as a spirit soul.  Seeing everyone equally reminds me of the BG verse 5.18…

vidya-vinaya-sampanne

brahmane gavi hastini

suni caiva sva-pake ca

panditah sama-darsinah

The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, and elephant, a dog, and dog-eater [outcaste].

The humble sages use equal vision and see all those things equally like how we can see all things equally by seeing Krishna everywhere.

In conclusion, this verse (6.30) is what you need to do in Krishna consciousness: see Krishna everywhere and see everything in Krishna so, Krishna isn’t lost to you and you aren’t lost to Krishna. That is the truth.

Reflections written by Rashi Matha