Nobody Equal or Above
Bhagavad-gītā is supposed to be spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore it is stated here, bhagavān uvāca. Those who are Sanskrit scholar, they will understand what is meant by the word bhagavān. Bhagavān. Bhaga means opulence, and one who possesses opulences, he is called vān. The vatu-pratyaya. From vatu-pratyaya, the word comes, vān. So bhagavān means “one who possesses all opulences.”
There are six kinds of opulences = wealth, I mean to say, reputation, strength, knowledge, renunciation, beauty. These are called opulences. If one person is very rich, he is opulent; he attracts attention of many persons. Similarly, if one person is very influential, strong, he also attracts. Similarly, if one man is very famous for his activities, he also attracts attention. Similarly, if one man is very beautiful or a woman is very beautiful, he or she attracts attention. If one is very wise, learned, he also attracts attention. These are called six opulences, and these opulences are possessed by us in small quantity.
Every one of us may possess some riches, maybe little wise or very… Not very strong, little strong. Little, little quantity of these opulences are there in every person. But when you find a person that nobody possesses more than him all these opulences… The Sanskrit word is asama ūrdhva. Asama means “equally,” and…, sama means equally, and asama means “without being equal.” And ūrdhva means “above.” When you find somebody, above Him or equal to Him anyone else is as rich, as famous, as opulent, as wise, as beautiful, that person is called God. This is the definition of God. “God is great” means nobody is equal to Him, nobody is above Him in any kinds of opulences. That is called bhagavān.
So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement… The bhagavān is called Kṛṣṇa. He has got many millions of name, but “Kṛṣṇa” name is the chief. “Kṛṣṇa” name means the attractiveness, all-attractive. God must be all-attractive. It is not that God is attractive for one person, not for the other. No. God is attractive for all living entities. Therefore you see the picture of Kṛṣṇa = He is loving the calves and cows, He is loving the trees, He is loving the gopīs, He is loving the cowherds boy. For Him, for God, everyone is lovable object, because everyone is son of God.
Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3 Sept. 10, 1973 Stockholm https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/730910bgsto/
