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one to develop authentic knowledge of the Lord. This results in dispensation from all karma and material
miseries, which frees one to engage in the loving transcendental devotional service for the Lord. Unless one
evolves to transcendental knowledge, the sacrifices one may perform are no more than material activities.
Attaining transcendental knowledge of Krishna, one’s sacrifices become genuine acts of devotion meant
uniquely for the pleasure of God. It is impossible to attain peace without elevation to the platform of
transcendental knowledge culminating in pure devotion to the Lord.

Truth #2- Krishna is the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods

Lord Krishna is sarva-loka-mahesvaram (Bg 5.29); this means that Krishna is the Supreme Lord of all planets and
demigods, the Supreme proprietor and controller of everything. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada correlates
understanding Lord Krishna as the Supreme controller of all other controllers and the greatest of all the diverse
planetary leaders with the attainment of real peace:

“The conditioned souls within the clutches of the illusory energy are all anxious to attain peace in the material
world. But they do not know the formula for peace, which is explained in this part of the Bhagavad-gītā. The
greatest peace formula is simply this: Lord Kṛṣṇa is the beneficiary in all human activities. Men should offer
everything to the transcendental service of the Lord because He is the proprietor of all planets and the demigods
thereon. No one is greater than He. He is greater than the greatest of the demigods, Lord Śiva and Lord Brahmā.
In the Vedas (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.7) the Supreme Lord is described as tam īśvarāṇāṁ paramaṁ
maheśvaraṁ. Under the spell of illusion, living entities are trying to be lords of all they survey, but actually they
are dominated by the material energy of the Lord. The Lord is the master of material nature, and the conditioned
souls are under the stringent rules of material nature. Unless one understands these bare facts, it is not possible
to achieve peace in the world either individually or collectively. This is the sense of Kṛṣṇa consciousness: Lord
Kṛṣṇa is the supreme predominator, and all living entities, including the great demigods, are His subordinates.
One can attain perfect peace only in complete Kṛṣṇa consciousness.” (Bg 5.29 – purport)

Lord Krishna further reveals His supreme proprietorship:

yo mām ajam anādiṁ ca / vetti loka-maheśvaram
asammūḍhaḥ sa martyeṣu / sarva-pāpaiḥ pramucyate
“He who knows Me as the unborn, as the beginningless, as the Supreme Lord of all the worlds – he only,
undeluded among men, is freed from all sins.” (Bg 10.3)

The phrase vetti loka-mahesvaram emphatically establishes that Lord Krishna is the supreme proprietor of the
planetary systems of the universe. Lord Krishna is the origin of everything material and spiritual as stated by
Himself: aham sarvasya prabhavo / mattah sarvam pravartate (Bg 10.8).

Three Vedic statements establish that everything in the material creation is Brahman (the total manifest
material creation which is an expansion of Lord Krishna’s energy) : sarvaṁ hy etad brahma (Māṇḍūkya
Upaniṣad 2), tasmād etad brahma nāma rūpam annaṁ ca jāyate (Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.1.9), and, in
the Bhagavad-gītā (14.3), mama yonir mahad brahma indicate that everything in the material world is a
manifestation of Brahman; and although the effects are differently manifested, they are nondifferent from the
cause. The cause is the Supreme Brahman, Lord Krishna. A further explanation of the phrase mama yonir mahad
brahma follows by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

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