Inconceivable Potency (acintya shakti)

There are many cetanas, living entities, and they are all eternal. They are many, plural number. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam. But there is another nitya, nityo nityanam, two. One is singular number, and one is plural number. What is the distinction? The distinction is eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. That singular number is particularly so powerful that He's supplying the necessities of all the plural number. The plural number, or the living entities, anantaya kalpate, they..., you cannot count how many living entities are there. But they are to be maintained by the singular number. That is the distinction. God is person; you are also person; I am also person. We exist eternally, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita. Krsna said to Arjuna that "You, Me, all these soldiers and kings who have assembled there, it is not that they did not exist in the past. They are existing at present, and they will continue to exist in that way in the future." That is called nityanam cetananam.    (More...)

Prabhupada: That is their foolishness. That is their foolishness. They are thinking God a person like me, like himself. That is foolishness. They cannot conceive that a person can become so powerful than myself. That is the defect. A person has acintya-sakti, acintya-sakti, inconceivable power. Now, just like you are person: you cut your hair, it is growing. Do you know how it is growing?    (More...)

Prabhupada: Then? Even it is beyond your conception, what to speak of others. But it is growing. It is... If there is any scar or if the nail is broken some way or other, it will come out. But... You cannot manufacture it by conceiving. But it is coming out. That means within you there is an inconceivable power. So if you have got, an ordinary human being, so much inconceivable power, how much God has got inconceivable power. That is God.    (More...)

Hamsaduta: In Los Angeles you called it mystic power, that every living creature has some mystic power.    (More...)

Trivikrama: You gave the example of a lemon tree.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes. The mystic power producing tons of citric acid.    (More...)

Trivikrama: Citric acid.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes, lemon juice. Acintya-sakti, inconceivable power. [pause] The cow, eating grass, producing milk-this is inconceivable power. Can you produce milk from the grass? But how the cow is producing? Hmm? Answer this. You eat grass and produce milk. Give your wife grass and let her produce milk. [break] Your question is answered? Eh?    (More...)