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Prabhupada, Los Angeles, June 7, 1976: […] We can see practically that universal affairs, how things are being managed. Exactly in the right time, the sun is rising, the moon is rising, and they’re working exactly to the time. In this season, the sun will stay during daytime so many hours. Exactly we find.
Not that this year he’s staying from six to six, and next year he’s not appearing. No. There is no question of accidents. The same date, same month, and the same appearance of the sun and the moon. Everything. And still we say “There is no God,” “God is dead,” “There is no controller.” This is foolishness. Mudha. The mudhas, the asses… Mudha means asses, one who has no knowledge.
It is commonsense affair. That if everything is going on so nicely, how I can think there is no controller? In your house, in your office, if everything goes very nicely, systematically, there is the director, there is the manager, superintendent, and everything is going nice, how, without these things, how the whole universal affair can go so nicely?
That is not accidental, that there was a chunk and immediately it became a this and that. No. There was no accident. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. There is no question of accidents. Krishna says, “Under My supervision, everything is going on.”
So Narayana, or Krishna, He’s controlling everything. And this material world is made of three modes of material nature: sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [Bg. 3.27] The Bhagavad-gita also says the same thing. Prakrteh, this material nature, is working under three modes of material nature—sattva-guna, tamo-guna, rajo-guna.
In the rajo-guna, the material world is created. In sattva-guna, the material world is maintained. And in tamo-guna, this material world is dissolved, or annihilated. This is the way, going on. So sattva-guna, maintenance, in charge is Vishnu Himself. Without Vishnu, nobody can maintain. Just like one contractor, he can manufacture a very big skyscraper building, but to maintain it, it requires another management, how to manage and maintain. And dissolution, anyone can break this big skyscraper.
These three things are going on. So the maintenance in charge is Narayana, His expansion, Vishnu. Vishnu, Vishnu is supplying all the needs of our… We are so many living entities, innumerable, but Vishnu, Lord Vishnu, He is supplying all our needs. Just like father, he supplies the needs of the family, children. Similarly, Vishnu is maintaining. Eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. So many different varieties of living entities and they have got different demands, different necessities, everything is supplied by Vishnu. Eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. That is God.
So we cannot declare independence. That is not possible. There is no independence. Full Lecture
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