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Pusta Krsna: "My dear Lordship, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the whole cosmic creation is caused by You, and the cosmic manifestation is the effect of Your energy. Although the whole cosmic creation is Yourself, still, You keep Yourself aloof from it. The conception of 'my' and 'yours' is certainly a kind of illusion, maya. Because everything is emanating from You, it is not different from You. The manifestation is also not different from You, and the annihilation is also caused by You. In this connection, the example is of the seed and the tree, or the subtle cause and the gross manifestation."
Prabhupada: tvam va idam sad-asad isa bhavams tato 'nyo maya yad atma-para-buddhir iyam hy apartha yad yasya janma nidhanam sthitir iksanam ca tad vaitad eva vasukalavad asti-tarvoh [SB 7.9.31] |
Cause and effect, sad-asad. One disappears, the cause appears, disappears, and the effect comes into being. The very good example is given here, asti-tarvoh. Asti means seed, and the... From the asti, from the seed, a big banyan tree comes out. At that time the asti, the seed, disappears. A tree is manifestation, so this is example of sad-asat. Asti, the seed, disappears, and the tree is manifest. So the creation of God is like that. Therefore, in the Bhagavad-gita it is said, bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam [Bg 7.10]. Bija, asti, or seed, He is the root cause of everything. One seed, a small seed, grain, and hundreds of thousands trees coming out of it, and in each tree there are millions of fruits, and each fruit, there are hundreds and thousands of seeds. Again, from the seed, the same creation, hundreds and thousands, millions and millions. This is God's intelligence, how from one source so many varieties are coming out. Again, when annihilation takes place, they again go into the original seed, Krsna. Yanti mamikam, it is said. It's coming out.
yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya
jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah
visnur mahan sa iha yasya kala-viseso
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs. 5.48]
This material creation is done by Maha-Visnu. Maha-Visnu. The original Visnu, Krsna, He has nothing to do. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. Original God -- isvarah paramah krsnah [Bs. 5.1] -- He is simply playing on flute and enjoying the company of Srimati Radharani. He has nothing to do. And how things are taking place? Creation, He's the creator? By expansion, svamsa. From Krsna the expansion is Balarama; from Balarama the expansion is Sankarsana, then Aniruddha, Pradyumna, like that, then Narayana, then again Sankarsana, Pradyumna, Aniruddha, dvitiya-catur-vyuha. From this Sankarsana, Maha-Visnu. Therefore Maha-Visnu is described, kala-visesah. Yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah, sa iha yasya kala-viseso [Bs. 5.48]. This Maha-Visnu, from whom, by His breathing only, millions and trillions of universes are coming, and each universe there is a Brahma, jagad-anda-nathah. Just like in this universe there is one Brahma. He creates again so many demigods, animals, human beings in each universe. Again we create so many also. Each of us, although we are very insignificant, still in the history we find one man begets hundreds of children.
So this is creation. This is Krsna's creation, how things are going on. But original seed is Krsna. Sarva-karana-karanam. Isvarah paramah krsnah sat-cit-ananda-vigrahah, anadih [Bs. 5.1]. He has no karana. He is not coming out of any seed. Anadi. Anadi means there is no beginning. He is eternal. Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [Bs. 5.1]. Sat-cit-ananda-vigrahah. So there is no creator of Krsna, but Krsna is the creator of everything. That is called isvarah paramah, the Supreme. Everyone may be isvara-partially. Isvara means controller. So every one of us, we are more or less little controller. We sometimes control some little children or some disciples or some kingdom. So everyone may be controller. They are very much fond of becoming God. God means controller. So everyone can become... He is. Krsna has given. Because we are part and parcel of Krsna, so the quality of controlling must be there. Although very insignificant part and parcel of Krsna, still, the power of controlling is there, very minute quantity. This is understanding. Svamsa vibhinamsa. Everyone... Visnu-tattva is also Krsna's amsa, part and parcel. Yasya kala-visesah. Kala-visesah means part, part of the part. Kala, amsa, and amsa's amsa, that's called kala-viseso. So that kala-visesa, Krsna, Maha-Visnu, He's creating millions and millions of universes. So just imagine what is the creative power of Krsna.
Therefore Prahlada Maharaja says, idam sad-asad-isa. Sad-asat, karya karana, cause and effect. Just like you have got a cloth. Cloth is made of cotton. So from cotton we prepare thread, and from thread we prepare cloth. So when the cloth is there, the thread has disappeared. When the thread is there, the cotton has disappeared. They are called sad-asat. Sat means which is existing, and asad means which is no longer existing. So this material world is asat. It is simply for the time being an exhibition. So we have to find out the real existence, sanatana existence. That is Krsna. We should not be bewildered by seeing this temporary manifestation. Anything material is temporary. It has a date of creation. Everything, whatever you see here in the... Just like this microphone. It has got a date of creation, it will work for some time, and then it will go out of order, and we shall throw it in the street and again it will disappear in the earth, because everything has come out from the earth. This is material world. But we must find out what is the reality. We should not be bewildered by the temporary things. Our Krsna consciousness movement is to take the living entity from this temporary world to the spiritual world or to the permanent world, where there is no more annihilation. It is eternal, nitya. Nityah sasvatah.
So we living entities, we are eternal. This is maya, that I am thinking, "I am this body." This is our ignorance. So the Krsna consciousness movement is to deliver the human society from this ignorance, temporary things: "I am this body. This is my country. This is my wife. This is my children. This is... This is mine. This is -- aham mameti [SB 5.5.8]. I am this body, and anything in reference with the body is mine." But actually there is no such thing. This is called maya. Real thing is, the reality is, Krsna, Brahman, Parabrahman. All other things... Therefore Vedic injunction is, "Don't try to remain in this temporary situation." Asato ma sad gamah: "Don't remain this..." But we are so ignorant, our present civilization is so foolish, that they do not know what is sat and what is asat. They want to stay in the asat. They want to make arrangement to stay in this asat, temporary things, forgetting that however nicely you make arrangement in this temporary material world, you'll not be allowed to stay. This is our ignorance. Mudha nabhijanati mam ebhyah param avyayam. Krsna says, "These rascals, mudha, they do not know what is the permanent stage, sanatana." That is wanted. That is human knowledge. One should know the permanent, not be bewildered by the temporary things. That is ignorance.
Therefore Prahlada Maharaja says, yad atma-para-buddhir iyam hy apartha. This is misconception, atma-para-buddhih. Atma means "mine," and para means "others." Where is "my" and "your"? Everything Krsna's. Hy apartha. This is misconception. But the whole world is going on on the basis of this atma-para-buddhih: "My country," "My city," "My building," "My family," "my, my, my," that's all. And "my" and "your." Neither your nor mine. It is all Krsna's, the different energies, manifestation of different energies. Just like fire. From fire, two energies are coming, and if we fight that this, you say, "The light energy is mine, and the heat energy is your," that is foolishness. The heat and light, both of them, are coming from the fire. Everything belongs to the fire. But we are fighting: "Heat is mine, and light is your. Let us divide." How you can divide? Parasya brahmanah saktih. Everything is manifestation of energy. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. We see in the garden so many flowers, different color, different flavor, different utility. But wherefrom it is coming? It is coming from this earth. We do not know even how much inconceivable energies are there within this earth. We do not know. Where is the scientist? They are very much proud of their scientific knowledge. Let them say how many varieties of things are within this earth. They analyze the earth. What do they find? They see only sixty percent soda bicarb. No. There are many, many finer chemicals. Who is that rascal who can say that so many things are there, "This is soda bicarb"? And this is scientific, that's all. Nobody scientist; all fools and rascals, mudha. They do not know anything. Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, "I am this." That is the actual fact. But His energies are so, mean, manifestedly variegatedness energy. You'll find so beautiful world. It is condemned place. Still, you see, by Krsna's energy the world is so beautiful -- so many trees, so many flowers, so many fruits, so many varieties of life, so many varieties of human beings. This is Krsna, varieties. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate sva-bhaviki... [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. And every energy is acting automatically. You give the seed, sow the seed on the earth, and automatically the flower, flavor, beauty -- everything will come automatically. There will be no... There is no question of accidents. The so-called scientist, they cannot explain. "Accidents." Why accidents? A rose flower seed-rose will come. Why not by accident, lemon? No. There is no such things as accidents. This is all rascaldom. Everything is going on... Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate sva-bhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. In the energy there is automatic knowledge and activities, and they are being manifested.
So Prahlada Maharaja says that "Everything, variety, is there, but..." Tvam va idam sad-asad bhavan: "Except Yourself, to conceive anything else, that 'Beyond Krsna there is anything,' that is maya." That is maya, illusion. There is nothing except Krsna. Therefore those who are advanced devotees, they do not see anything, simply Krsna in everywhere. Sthavara-jangama dekhe na dekhe tara murti, sarvatra sphuraya tanra ista-deva murti [Cc. Madhya 8.274]. A devotee sees a tree, but he does not see the tree. He sees: "It is Krsna's energy." Immediately he remembers Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness. When every step you'll simple see Krsna, that is Krsna... That is possible, provided you follow the footstep of Prahlada Maharaja. That will be possible. Or devotees. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. That is the way. If you speculate nonsensically, it will be not possible. If you follow the devotees, mahajano yena gatah sa panthah, then you'll be successful.
Thank you very much. (end)
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.31 -- Mayapur, March 9, 1976
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