Svarupa Damodara, April 20, 1973, Los Angeles: ..In physical sciences, there’s a branch called thermodynamics that deals with the transfer of heat and energy in different forms. So their three laws is called first law, second law and the third law. First law deals with the conservation of energy in different forms. And the second law, it is stated that the energy of the universe is constant. Just like the, in the Sri Isopanisad, the Invocation, purna…
Prabhupada: Yes. Purnat purnam udacyate, purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate.
Svarupa Damodara: On the other hand the second law says that the, the entropy, that means the randomness of the all natural, spontaneously occurring natural processes, always increase. The randomness…
Prabhupada: But… Thing is that they are studying the laws very nicely. That’s good. But they should appreciate that who has made this law? That is their defect. They are studying how the laws of nature is working. That’s nice. But they should appreciate at the same time: Who made such subtle laws that they are working so nicely? That is our philosophy.
We do not only study the laws and appreciate it, but we study the law-maker also. That is the difference between ourself and the so-called scientists. They are left, poor fund of knowledge. They cannot appreciate that there is a law-maker of these subtle laws. That is their defect. That is called poor fund of knowledge. And as soon as we accept law-maker, we have to accept that He’s a person, He has got brain. Therefore He can make laws.
Just like the great ocean is working, but there is a law. It cannot come here. Although there is potency. At any second it can cover the whole city But there is a law. Just like state laws. Up to this. No more admission. You have to stop. Similarly, there is law of God. Where there is order: You mighty ocean, you cannot come beyond this. This is law. There is sun. “You must rise at half-past, at five o’clock in the morning.” “Yes, sir.” This is law. “You must rise on the Eastern side.” “Yes, Sir.” Not whimsically.
Sometimes this side, sometimes that side, sometimes that side. Cannot do whimsically. That is law of nature. And behind the law of nature, there is the order-giver, law-maker. This is perfect knowledge. mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. “Under My superintendence, the laws of nature is working.” This is intelligence.
We are teaching people this intelligence. That’s all. We don’t decry that your studying of the laws of nature is useless. We don’t say that. We say: “Not so much. This is imperfect. Go forward still.” And that is perfection. You are a science student. By your scientific knowledge, you prove that behind these laws, there is Krishna.
Then your scientific knowledge is perfect. Either from the chemical department or physical department or electrical department. Any department. It doesn’t matter. Through that department you go to the ultimate center. Just like here is center. And there are so many spokes. So many spokes. So whichever spoke you may be, come to the center. That is your perfection. The spokes may be of different direction. Like that. But center is Krishna.
The energy, central energy is Krishna. Atah pumbhir dvija-srestha varnasrama-vibhagasah, svanusthitasya dharmasya samsiddhir hari-tosanam [SB 1.2.13]. And these, these living entities, they’re flying. They have got intelligence. “The men are coming. We shall be smashed.” They’re flying, taking shelter. Defence. Ahara-nidra-bhaya-mai… Defence, defence measures. They know how to defend themselves in their own way.
Similarly they know how to eat and similarly they know how to sleep. But what is the difference between this insect and me? I can talk of God, I can understand God. It cannot. That is the difference. I can study Vedic literature, so many facilities for me. But all these facilities, all this intelligence, I am utilizing for the same purpose, eating, sleeping, sex and defence.
Therefore it is useless waste of time, waste of life, valuable life. What is their benefit? Suppose you are studying that this law is working like that, this law is working like that, but you cannot help. You cannot change the law. You are under the laws. So what is the benefit simply by studying?
Svarupa Damodara: They get some pleasure.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Svarupa Damodara: Just knowing the law.
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pamho agtACBSP, thank you for posting this nice article by the most practical acharya in vijnana maya(HDG ACBSP) who always remind us to the divine laws of the spiritual world which are more important then the material laws connected to this corrupted society of this material world but the most mystical law in the material world is the factor time it’s the first element to be manifested and it’s also the last element to become unmanifested
therefore everything take place under the wheel of the factor time to become eternal means to go beyond the factor time,it’s a very simple thing and in the same time can be the most complicate the five factor of the action also take place under the influence of the factor time actually almost everyone is trapped in that material and polluted influences of the wheel of the factor time in all the universe even the demigods have to leave everything in the heaven when the spain of their lives is over and that’s after ten thousand years the influences of the factor time are completely different between planets form of life and duration of life
for example kali yuga is the shortest of all the four ages but the consciousness is so low that look like the longest age but if we are member of the sankirtan party of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA we are living in the golden age of satya yuga,in the spiritual world the influences of the factor time don’t exist ,the factor time there is always at the present time there are not the consequences of the past and future to pay everyone there is full of spiritual taste and they are of the same quality of krsna and in the same time different from krsna on the level of quantity
like when we say rukmini vallabhaya dimahi tanno krsna pracodayat it means that rukmini is not different from krsna in quality therefore rukmini can be krsna also because everything is including in the perfect pure quality and quantity of krsna energies,unless we get this understanding we can’t become vaikunta men completely free from jivasya mohan aham mameti ,
for SRI KRSNA nothing is impossible HE can stop the factor time HE can call back the sun as HE did in the battlefield of SRI KURUKSETRA HE created all this fourteen planetary systems called material worlds to allow us to make the impossible and to show us that nothing is impossible for SRI KRSNA thiis is another special quality and proof that god is great because nothing is impossible for HIM because HE is the origin of everything including the source of all secrets therefore when we know and love krsna we have not secrets to get reveal anymore because we got the greatest revealation
JAI SRILA PRABHUPADA
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