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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...)

So whole material world is nothing but tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayaḥ, exchange of, elementary, this earth, water and fire. The same principle here also: taste. Just like we cook the same oil, ghee, and salt and turmeric, but we prepare different preparations, hundred, two hundred preparation, simply by the process of mixing earth. So that is going on. Now, by Krsna's energy... Parasya saktir vividhaiva srūyate [Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8].    (More...)