Lecture on BG 7.9-10 -- Bombay, February 24, 1974 by Srila Prabhupada: Nārada Muni was passing, and one very learned scholar, brāhmaṇa, he saw Nārada Muni, and he asked Nārada Muni, Sir, where you are going? He said, I am going to Vṛndāvana, yes, Vaikuṇṭha, to see my Lord. Oh, you are going there? Nārada Muni has got free passage to everyone. So, Will you ask Nārāyaṇa when my liberation will come? All right, I shall ask. Then he met another cobbler. He was sewing shoes. So he also asked, Sir, where you are going? Now I am going to Vaikuṇṭha to see my Lord. So, Will you ask when I shall get salvation? So Nārada Muni noted, All right, I shall ask. So when Nārada Muni met Nārāyaṇa, he, after finishing his business, he asked the two mens question, that These two men, one very learned scholar, brāhmaṇa, he also asked me this question, and the cobbler also asked me. So Nārāyaṇa said This cobbler will get his salvation after finishing this life, and this brāhmaṇa will have to take, wait for many, many births. So Nārada Muni became very much inquisitive, How is that? So when he came back, first of all he met the brāhmaṇa. He inquired, Did you inquire, sir, about me? Yes, yes. He said that you have to wait many, many births. No, He did not say many, many births, Kṛṣṇa said, Nārāyaṇa said that When you meet them again, you say that, if they inquire What my Lord was doing at that time? you say that He was pulling one elephant from the hole of a nail, what is called? Devotees: Needle. Prabhupāda: Needle. So when he met the brāhmaṇa he said... And he inquired, What Nārāyaṇa was doing when you met Him? I saw that He was pulling one elephant through the hole of a needle. So he immediately said, All right, sir, namaskāra. Your, all these big, big stories we cannot believe, that an elephant is being drawn through the hole of a needle. And the same question was raised by the cobbler, and he, Nārada Muni replied in the same way. And he began to cry, Oh, my Lord is so powerful. He can do anything. So Nārada Muni inquired that How do you believe that the elephant is being drawn through the hole of a needle? Now, why not? I am seeing daily. I am sitting under this banyan tree and there is fig, banyan fruit, and there are thousands of seeds, and I know that each seeds containing a big tree like this. Thats a fact. Everyone knows. Bījo haṁ sarva-bhūtānām. (Bg 7.10) Here Kṛṣṇa says, bījo haṁ sarva-bhūtānām. Is there any chemist? Just get one small seed like the fig seed. It is very small, but it contains that big tree. Where is that chemistry? Where is that physics? So here is the answer, Kṛṣṇa says, bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ viddhi. Big, even this big, gigantic universe, that is also bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānām. It is stated in the Vedic literature. Yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ (Bs. 5.48). There are so many things. Everyone is inquisitive, Where is the beginning of this thing? The beginning is the Supreme Lord. That is the Vedānta-sūtra, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). Beginning is there. So you cannot say that life has come from matter. That is not possible. Because here it is said, Kṛṣṇa says, that bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānām. Anything which has come into existence, the original source is Kṛṣṇa. So Kṛṣṇa is life. Hes not dead stone. Therefore the conclusion is: from life, life has come and matter has come. Not that matter has come from life. Oh, what is that? Life has come from matter. That is not the conclusion. That is wrong conclusion. So if you actually require perfect knowledge, then we have to accept knowledge this, like this way. It is called avaroha-panthā. Avaroha-panthā means a descendence or deductive process. So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we claim that we have got perfect knowledge of everything because we are taking knowledge from the perfect person—Kṛṣṇa. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ (BG 4.2). And that is the real process.
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