Prabhupada, Bombay, January 17, 1975: […] So whole material world is nothing but tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayah, exchange of, elementary, this earth, water, and fire. The same principle here also: taste. Just like we cook the same oil, ghee, and salt and turmeric, but we prepare different preparations, hundred, two hundred preparation, simply by the process of mixing earth.
So that is going on. Now, by Krishna’s energy… Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate. His energy is working in such subtle way, mysterious way. Therefore Krishna is known as Yogesvara. The same earth, same water, but the seed different.
So one tree is coming to produce chili, another tree is coming out to produce tomato, another tree is coming out to produce mango. Different taste. Mango is sweet, tomato is sour, chili is pungent. But these things are required, varieties. Although the source is one. Source is one—the earth—but the earth contains all other five elements. Ksitir ap tejo vari mrd vyoma.
Everything is there in the earth. Everything is there, and by the expert handling of the prakrti and behind the prakrti, Krishna, varieties of things are coming. This is Krishna consciousness, how things are coming by the handling, expert handling of Krishna. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10].
The blunt scientists, they are seeing, simply prakrti is the cause of these varieties. But that is not the fact. The fact is it is the Krishna’s manipulation, mixture, mixing of the elements, and different varieties are coming out. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate. Sruyate. You cannot see how Krishna is handling, but sruyate, you can understand from the sruti, by the Vedic literature, as it is said here.
kasayo madhuras tiktah katv amla iti naikadha bhautikanam vikarena raso eko vibhidyate
Bhautikanam vikarena. Just like earth, water, fire, air, they are bhautika. But they are not mixing together. The original, I mean to say, manipulator is Krishna. Full Lecture
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