You have to understand how Krishna’s potency is working

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Prabhupada, 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. Full Lecture