same ingrediants can make a variety of preparations

 
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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...)

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