You see a butterfly, how it is nicely painted

You see a butterfly, how it is nicely painted. You just see duplicate in both the wings. Just like an artist paint nicely, it is painted.

Now, Krsna has immense potencies, which are divided into three. What is that? Iccha-sakti, kriya-sakti, jnana-sakti. Iccha-sakti means His potency, whatever He wishes, that can be done, iccha. Kriya- sakti: then activity, kriya-sakti. And jnana-sakti, knowledge, knowledge. In the Vedic literature it is said, parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. Just like one potency is working, producing flowers, producing flowers. We are seeing that a flower is being produced automatically, so nicely scented, so nicely colored. But because we are fools, therefore we think it is being produced automatically. No. It is produced by the kriya-sakti, by the active potency of God, kriya- sakti. Jnana-sakti: and there is such perfect knowledge that nobody can see any defect. You see a butterfly, how it is nicely painted. You just see duplicate in both the wings. Just like an artist paint nicely, it is painted. So we think it is coming out of nothing. This is our foolishness. Here is, that it is coming out of the jnana-sakti. But His jnana is so wide that simply by His desire, simply by His will, it can be executed. These are the things to be studied. Because we cannot see something before our eyes, that does not mean there is no existence. There is existence, but we do not know how one is working, how one is working. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya.

Just like you see the anatomical condition of your body. Now, how this body is produced, how nicely, that every mechanical arrangement, the eyes (piece?), and the…? Just like a big factory and big office. The brain is the office, and stomach is the factory, and it is creating energy, it is coming to the heart and another place… Just like soap factory. Sometimes, in some place, it is being, some part of the manufacture is finished, another… In this way it is going on. But it is coming out a small pea. And how it is developing. In everything you can see. You take a seed, how it develops, a great tree. How much potency is there. So svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. Everything is being done. I do not know. I claim, “It is my body,” but I do not know how even a hair is growing. I do not know how it is replaced. I cut in the morning, and the next day, I see again there is. So these things are going on. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. We have to study God’s activity in this way, so many things, nature’s study. So those who are intelligent, they can see that these things are working. What is that? Iccha-sakti, kriya-sakti, jnana-sakti, these three potencies of God, Krsna, is working.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 20.245-255
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
New York, December 16, 1966