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Prabhupada, Gorakhpur, February 16, 1971: […] You are completely in the hands of the nature. How, after shaving, how your hairs are growing, do you know?
Devotee: No.
Prabhupada: Then? It is completely under the hands of the nature. Similarly, everything is. As you cannot explain, cannot know how the hairs are growing, similarly, you cannot know how you are changing. It is, by nature, it is being done so nicely. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala… It is taking place. A flower is fructified. Can you explain how it is fructified? It is taking place. The foolish persons, they say “Automatically.” No.
The machine is so expert that it is taking… The machine is working. The nature is working, but we are not so expert to understand. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. We are thinking it is taking automatically. No. It is not. It is taking very perfectly, and we are so ignorant that we cannot understand.
We should always know our position, how much we are ignorant. I am claiming I am the… “It is my body.” How your nails are growing, can you explain? Why there is no sensation in the nail? So many things you are unaware, even of your body. So how you can be aware that how your body is changing? You have to learn, therefore, from authorities, “It is being done.” Just like Krishna says, dehino ’smin yatha dehe kaumara… [Bg. 2.13].
That is the process of knowledge. You have to know from the authorities how things are there. The person who is actually enacting, you have to know from Him. Otherwise, there is no possibility of knowledge.
prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate [Bg. 3.27]
Prakrti. You are walking, you are walking, and immediately you become paralyzed. But while walking you think, “I am walking. I am walking.” You are not walking. You are walking under some mechanical arrangement with the help of the material nature, but you are thinking, “I am walking.” In every step, in every action, you are completely dependent. Full Lecture
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