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Imported quote 18959 The blunt scientists, they are seeing simply prakrti is the cause of these varieties. But that is not the fact. The fact is it is the Krsna's manipulation, mixture, mixing of the elements, and different varieties are coming out. Parasya saktir vividhaiva srūyate. Srūyate. You cannot see how Krsna is handling, but srūyate, you can understand from the sruti, by the Vedic literature, as it is said here:
(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 we have to understand, as Krsna says, bijo 'ham sarva-bhūtanam: "I am the seed." Such subtle things, how it is coming out? In the small seed what is the chemical composition? You put the seed, sow the seed, anywhere and put little water, that tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayaḥ, but the things are coming out differently. How the variety is possible? Therefore we cannot mix up. There is rose scent within the earth. Otherwise wherefrom the rose is getting its scent? There is. Punyo gandhaḥ prthivyam ca [Bg 7.9].
(More...) Devotee's business is to glorify. He doesn't take any credit for himself. Actually, there is nothing to be taken credit. The all credit goes to Krsna. A devotee neither claims; neither it is possible. Even he may be very, very big devotee, he will never claim any credit for his glorious activities. His glorious activities means to make Krsna glorious. That is his glorious activities. Not that like the so-called materialist, he takes..., wants to take the credit. No. Sva-karmana tam abhyarcya samsiddhim labhate naraḥ [Bg 18.46]. Sva-karmana. You may be engaged in any pattern of work, any department of work. But by dint of your work you establish the existence of God, Krsna; and whatever is being done, it is being done by the expert management of Krsna. The sun is rising exactly in the time, and it is setting exactly in the time. And the temperature, according to the different season, the movement, uttarayana, daksinayana-everything is managed so expertly under the order of the Supreme. Mayadhyaksena prakrtiḥ [Bg 9.10]. Don't think the sun is working so nicely automatically. No automatically. The master is there: Krsna. Yasyajnaya bhramati sambhrta-kala-cakraḥ [Bs 5.52].
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