Prabhupada, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 20.110, New York, July 17, 1976: […] By the sun’s illumination we see practically how trees are growing their leaves, their color. Everything is due to the sunshine, we have got practical experience. Where there is no sunshine, especially in these countries, all the leaves fall down, and as soon as there is sunshine, immediately millions and trillions of leaves come out. Immediately. Not that waiting. Immediately.
At least in this way you have to understand how Krishna’s potency is working. That is the Vedic information, parasya brahmanah saktir. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. Just like the sunshine is the potency of the sun and how it is acting wonderfully.
Everything is perfectly—the flowers, the leaves— perfectly done. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. It doesn’t require any research work how this leaf has come out. It is coming out automatically. They cannot understand. They say, “Automatically.” No automatically. There is the working of the potency, but it is so perfect that svabhaviki, as if natural, coming out.
Everywhere you’ll find, in your body also, potencies. You shave your head, immediately next day again coming out, again coming out. But you do not know. Let the scientist say how it is coming out, his own hair, what to speak of others.
So everywhere the potency of the Supreme Lord is working. Very good example, exactly like the illumination, sunshine, moonshine, they are influencing the creation and they are situated in their own place, and they are all different potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
So this is the potency of Krishna. Krishna is engaged in Vrindavana, Goloka Vrindavana. Goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah [Bs. 5.37]. Although He is in the Goloka Vrindavana, He is playing with His cowherd boyfriends and the gopis and His father and mother, but still He’s expanded all over the creation. That is Krishna. That is Krishna. Goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah [Bs. 5.37].
Just like we live in some apartment. Now we are here, we are absent from that apartment. God is not like that. God is in His apartment, at the same time universally present. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese ’rjuna… [Bg. 18.61]. He’s everywhere present. That is God. He’s not limited; unlimited. That is God. Param bhavam ajanantah.
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