Authority Descends from the Author | The Gopīs Reveal the Highest Dharma

Right here, right? Authority descends from the author of all existence.

The, the connection there being that the cr-- that since Krishna is the author of all existence, since he's its source, since he is its very conceiver, he becomes authoritative, and all other authorities derive their authority from him, right? So, so all of that dharma, you know, in, in the Vedic paradigm it's all kind of laid out very clearly.

Sure.

You know? Yeah.

In, in our world we still, we still respect authority.

Right.

Um, and, and w- there's a governmental authority.

There's, you know, parental authority.

There's, you know, other authorities that, you know, w- in the workplace and so on.

The conception here is that if w- if w- for i- if we are in the role of an authority of, of any type, where does my power to dictate come from? Mm.

Where does my power to, um, correct o- or, or anything that an authority might have the power to do, where, where is that power derived from and what is that authority meant to represent? It's clarified here.

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It goes back to the author, right? Authority is derived from the author.

And so Krishna is defined as the author of all existence and all authority is derived from him.

Therefore, if there's an authority in one's life that's disconnecting you, disconnecting your service, um, from, from ultimately flowing towards the divine authority, then they lose their authority, you know? And we've seen Bhagavad Gita show even in, like, in one sense the most important authority in the Vedic paradigm is the guru.

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Right? It's the, the guru's seen as the representative, right? If the guru's seen to not just, to, to discontinue the representation of the divine author, they've lost their authority.

And so we saw that in the case with Bali Maharaj, right? Mm-hmm.

Where his guru, who he accepted as his highest authority, began to s- to disconnect his service to the divine author, to, to Lord Vishnu.

And he said, "Okay, you lost your authority.

I won't, I won't follow that anymore." Mm-hmm.

You know? A- a- and, and so this idea about authority, if one's playing the role of it or if, if one's serving an authority, and most of us play both roles somehow in our life.

To, to, to see where it's all derived from and how it's all meant to connect becomes a really essential point, and the gopis are pointing it to it right here.

Mm.

They're saying, "You're telling us to go back and serve our authorities, but you're the authority." Mm.