Not a blade of grass moves without the desire of Krsna

Krsna’s energy is working. Parasya brahmanah saktih.  Without Krsna’s energy, how everything is taking  place? And He is explaining. He says, mayadhyaksena  [Bg. 9.10]. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate  sa-caracaram. Don’t be rascal, that “This material  nature is working automatically.” This is rascal’s.

Material nature is not working independently, not by accident. It is not accident that exactly at 6:30 or 6:15 the sun is rising. Do you think accident takes place every day? One day you may say, “The sun is rising at 6:30 by accident.” But daily? What is this rascaldom?

So those who support this accident theory, they are simply rascals. How accident can take place exactly in the same time and in the same way, exactly in the same season changing? And the flowers are coming.

The atmosphere is different. Is that accident? Less intelligent, mudha. They will not agree that it is being done by God, by the direction of…, mayadhyaksena [Bg. 9.10]. Adhyaksa means direction.

So the sun, moon, or anything material that is working, we see they are working very wonderfully, but don’t think that they are working automatically or independently. No. That is not possible. The foolish man may think like that, “automatically.”

No, there is no automatically, no accident. Therefore, yena yasmad yatah yad uta, superior, inferior everything is systematically being done according to the desire. They say, “Not a blade of grass moves without the desire of Krsna.” That’s a  fact. Without Krsna’s desire… Every step we are going forward, it is guided by Krsna. It is not directly by Krsna but through the instrument of Krsna. This is nature. Nature is nothing but instrument. Durga. Durga. Sristi-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-saktir eka chayeva yasya bhuvanani  vibharti durga [Bs. 5.44] This Durga energy. Durga energy means this material energy. Durga. Durga means fort. We are packed up within this fort. You see the round sky. It is just like a football. And within, we are packed up. Just like the soldiers, they are within the fort or there are other persons also, similarly, this is a durga. Durga. Duh means difficult, and ga means going. Dur-ga. So because the nature is feminine, therefore it is called Durga. So just like in the fort, in the jail, if you are put, it is dur-ga, very difficult to come out, very, very difficult. Duh means it is not so easy.

Therefore it is called dur-ga. You cannot enter in the fort or in the jail. Big, big walls, you cannot enter there without permission, and you cannot come out without permission. That is called durga. So this Durga, or durga-sakti, material energy, very, very powerful. You cannot come out from this fort of material existence without superior permission. That is Krsna’s permission. Mayadhyaksena: [Bg. 9.10] “Under My vigilence, under My superintendence.”

Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.20
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mayapur, February 27, 1976

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