This is God’s intelligence

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Prabhupada, Mayapur, March 9, 1976: […] 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. 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, Krishna. 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-Vishnu. Maha-Vishnu. The original Vishnu, Krishna, 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 Krishna 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-Vishnu. Therefore Maha-Vishnu 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 Krishna’s creation, how things are going on. But original seed is Krishna. 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 Krishna, but Krishna is the creator of everything. That is called isvarah paramah, the Supreme. Full Lecture