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The Cause Behind All Activities
The Svetasvatara Upanisad (6.8) informs us,
na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate
na tat-samas cabhyadhikas ca drsyate parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is almighty, omnipotent. He has multifarious energies, and therefore He is able to remain in His own abode and without endeavor supervise and manipulate the entire cosmic manifestation through the interaction of the three modes of material naturegoodness, passion, and ignorance. These interactions create different forms, bodies, activities, and changes, which all occur perfectly. Because the Lord is perfect, everything works as if He were directly supervising and taking part in it.
Atheistic men, however, being covered by the three modes of material nature, cannot see that Narayana is the supreme cause behind all activities. Lord Krsna confirms this in the Bhagavad-gita (7.13),
Deluded by the three modes, the whole world does not know Me, who am above the modes and inexhaustible.
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