"So do you think this flower which is coming out daily in your garden in different colors and different smell and flavor, they are being done without any artistic sense?"
Prabhupada, San Francisco, July 21, 1975:[…] Everyone knows, those who are religious, either Hindu, Muslim, Christian, that God has created. Now, creation means He must be very expert. You do not see that this cosmic manifestation, the earth, water, air, fire, so nicely arranged, and they are being mixed up and so many other things are happening?
Everything is perfectly, perfectly being done. So this perfect knowledge, how Krishna or God received? Wherefrom He got this perfect knowledge? That is the difference between our knowledge and Krishna’s knowledge, God’s knowledge. That is called abhijna: He knows everything perfectly, without going to anyone else. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca.
This is the Vedic statement, that “The Absolute Truth is so perfect, He has got so many potencies, that everything is being done so perfectly.” Just like one artist.
If he wants to paint one picture, one flower, he has to give his attention in so many ways. He has to move the brush in such a way and take this color, different colors. It requires so many artistic sense and so much good sense, so many things. It does not come.
One who is not artist, not painter, he cannot paint. So do you think this flower which is coming out daily in your garden in different colors and different smell and flavor, they are being done without any artistic sense? This is nonsense. There is sense. There is God’s potency.
But parasya saktih, His senses, His knowledge, is so perfect that it is coming automatically, and we foolish people, we think that nature is producing. No, nature is the instrument, just like the brush, but the brain is God. That is Krishna consciousness.
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