soap, mixture of fat & soda

Rasa, taste, is one, but it becomes varieties by different combination of bhautikanam, material elements. This is chemistry. Chemistry means mixing of different chemicals and produced another element. Just like soap. Soap is mixture of fat and soda. So fat, oil, is something else, and soda is another thing, but if you carefully mix them together, it becomes soap. So the whole world is the mixture of these five elements: ksitir ap... Fire, water... Tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayam. The Sanskrit word is tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayaḥ. Mrd means this earth, and teja means fire, and vari means water. You take earth mixed with water and put it into the fire; it becomes brick. Then you take another mixture; that becomes cement. And take the help of cement and take the help of brick; then construct a house.    (More...)

Bhautikanam vikarena. Just like earth, water, fire, air, they are bhautika. But they are not mixing together. The original, I mean to say, manipulator is Krsna. Just like we have got experience, I have given just now experience, that oil is there. Suppose oil is acid, and soda is called alkali. The acid is there, alkali is there, but when a person comes, mix it proportionately, it becomes another product: soap. Similarly, everything is being manufactured like that, but how it is done? That is the expert handling of the Supreme Lord. Parasya saktir vividhaiva srūyate. He has got multi-energies, subtle laws, and He is working. But still, He has nothing to do Himself. That is God. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. Although He is handling... He is doing everything. Otherwise how it is possible? We have got experience: there is oil, and there is alkali, or soda, but they are not mixing together. For mixing together, you require another, living energy. Otherwise, automatically there cannot be soap. The soap factory is there, but the manufacturer is also there.    (More...)

So Krsna has manifested Himself in so many ways by His different energies. We have to learn simply to know or see how Krsna is working. So here it is stated that rasa-matrad vikurvanad ambhaso daiva-coditat. Krsna is working there. Vikur..., transformation does not take place automatically. Just like the other day I gave you the example: there is oil and there is soda, but you can transform into soap by mixing together. That mixing process does not take automatically. There is Krsna or Krsna's part and parcel, the living entity. We are also Krsna's part and parcel. So scientist is working, a devotee sees that Krsna is working. That is the difference between nondevotee and devotee. A nondevotee will give credit to the scientist, who is working subordinately under the orders of Krsna. That is stated also in the Bhagavad-gita: sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto mattaḥ smrtir jnanam apohanam ca [Bg 15.15]. In everyone's heart Krsna is there. So one man is working very nicely. He is taking the credit of becoming a scientist. Why the other man cannot do it? Another man is also working in the laboratory.    (More...)