“The Supreme Lord has got multi-varieties of Energy, and they are working”

Prabhupada, Melbourne, April 4, 1972: […] You don’t think material nature is blind. Material nature has got her intelligence, and she is taking intelligence from the Supreme Lord. And according to that she is supplying food or grains and everything, because you get everything from the earth. Either you take metal or this wood or water or food grains, whatever you are taking, using, you are exploiting the resources of material nature, but material nature is the agent of God. Material nature is an energy of God. So if God does not wish to supply you, however you may bring tractor and anything.

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Just like desert. In desert you cannot make it fertile because that particular tract of land is forbidden by God, “No, nothing should be produced.”

You cannot do it. If you have got producing power, then why don’t you produce sufficient grains and vegetables in the desert? That is not possible. So after all, we have to accept the supreme authority, the Personality of Godhead. Even if you study scrutinizingly, very scientifically or, whatever you may say, philosophically, you will have to accept a supreme arrangement, a supreme hand over everything. That is called Krishna consciousness. Krishna consciousness means a person who is Krishna conscious, he can see everything. He can see in everything the hand of God. That is Krishna consciousness.

If you see… A Krishna conscious person sees a flower. He sees the flower—creation of God, Krishna. “Oh, Krishna is so artistic that he has created this flower by His energy so nicely, so decorately, so good flavor. So it is Krishna’s thing. Let me offer it to Krishna.” This is Krishna consciousness.

If you become in everything Krishna conscious, then your life is successful. That we are teaching. It is a very scientific movement. Actually, that is the position. You cannot create a flower so nicely fragrant, so beautifully made. It is not in your power. But it must have been done by somebody. You cannot say, “By nature.” What is this nature? They say, foolish persons say, “It is nature.” But you explain what is nature. Nature means God’s nature, God’s energy. That is nature. God’s energy is so fine and so subtle that we cannot see it, how it is working, but it is working. The energy of God is working there.

Just like nowadays the electronic age, when you have got a television machine within our room, simply push a button, push on a button, and immediately the photo is there, the sound is there. But do not think that it is being done automatically. No. There is a good brain. There is a good brain who has discovered this machine. You do not know. You are simply pushing on this button, you are seeing. But don’t think it has come automatically by nature. That is not possible. You do not know how it is working. That is your ignorance. But that is not working without direction. There is direction. There is a television house who are broadcasting their direction. They know how to work the machine and everything. The brain is working, but it is so advanced that in your room, as soon as you push on a button you see everything. But don’t think it is becoming automatically done. No, that is not the fact.

Similarly, you take anything. You do not know the method how it is being worked, but there is method. It is so quick and it is so perfect that even without my knowledge it is coming out. It is scientific. Therefore the Vedas says, parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate, para: “The Supreme Lord has got multi-varieties of energy, and they are working.” Full lecture