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We are part and parcel of God, a minute particle; still, we have got so many potencies. Every man, not only man, the animals also, they have got various potencies, creative energy. So just imagine how much creative energies and potencies are there in God

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"we are part and parcel of God, a minute particle; still, we have got so many potencies. Every man, every living entity . . . not only man, the animals also, they have got various potencies, creative energy. So you just imagine how much creative energies and potencies are there in God"

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God means with His potencies. Just like ordinarily, we are part and parcel of God, a minute particle; still, we have got so many potencies. Every man, every living entity . . . not only man, the animals also, they have got various potencies, creative energy. So you just imagine how much creative energies and potencies are there in God.

Prabhupāda: (aside) You'll play mṛdaṅga, I'll sing. (sings Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava) (prema-dhvanī) Thank you very much.

Devotees: All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. (devotees offer obeisances)

Prabhupāda: So this is the true picture of God: jaya rādhā-mādhava. Jaya rādhā-mādhava kuñja-vihārī. He is simply enjoying, Rādhā-Mādhava. You have seen the picture, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. So eternally engaged in enjoyment, in the association of the gopīs. Gopī-jana-vallabha. And His only business is how to please the gopīs.

Just like here, in this material world, the young boy who loves a young girl, he tries to please the girl always. This is natural, because originally, the same thing is there in God. It is a pleasure. It is a pleasure for the male to please the female counterpart. That is originally created. Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir ahlādinī-śaktiḥ. These Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa love affairs is the originally there. Rādhārāṇī, the female counterpart, is the manifestation of ahlādinī-śakti, pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He has got many potencies. Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8, CC Madhya 13.65, purport).

God, God means with His potencies. Just like ordinarily, we are part and parcel of God, a minute particle; still, we have got so many potencies. Every man, every living entity . . . not only man, the animals also, they have got various potencies, creative energy. So you just imagine how much creative energies and potencies are there in God.

This is the understanding. If I am a little portion, part and parcel of God, I have got so much potencies . . . "I" means the human being. Or even animal. There are many animals, they have got . . . just like a bird. He can fly in the sky without any mechanical arrangement. He has got the potency. You cannot. If you want to fly in the sky, then you have to make some machine. But a small insect, he is flying very freely, without any mechanical . . . you cannot make such a small machine like an insect. That is not.

But God has given him potency, although he's a very insignificant small ant, insect, he can very freely fly. You cannot live within the water. If you want to live within the water, you have to make so many arrangements, submarine and this and that, so many things. But a small fish, he doesn't care even the ocean, playing. You see? A small fish. When I was walking on the beach of Hawai . . .

(aside) What is that animal with many le . . .?

Devotees: Crab.

Prabhupāda: Crab. So, when we were walking, they were flying towards the sea. They have got instinct, or reason that, "Somebody's coming. He may kill me. So let me have shelter of the Pacific Ocean." The crab is not going this side, to the forest, because he knows certain that, "The forest cannot give me shelter; the Pacific Ocean can give me shelter."

This is the psychology. I never seen the crab is going this side, forest side. It is going to the Pacific Ocean side. And, so far I am concerned, as soon as the waves are coming, I am going away from the ocean, although I am a human being. I cannot take shelter of the Pacific Ocean, because I have not the potency.

So in this way you have to study. We are samples of God, part and parcel. Just like you take little sample from the Pacific Ocean, a drop of water. You can taste it, and it is salty, you can understand the whole water is salty. Similarly, living entities, they are sample of God, small, very small. You can create one sputnik or jet plane, and you take so much credit, "Oh, I am flying in the sky." But why don't you give the credit to God, who is plying . . . flying millions of sputniks in the sky?

Not small; with so many mountains, seas, houses, trees, plants, and so many. You can see so many—the sun planet, the moon planet and others, so many other pla . . . Koṭiṣu vasudhādi vibhūti-bhinnam. In each and universe, every universe, there are millions of planets. Koṭiṣu, vasudhādi. Vasudha means planet.

Page Title:We are part and parcel of God, a minute particle; still, we have got so many potencies. Every man, not only man, the animals also, they have got various potencies, creative energy. So just imagine how much creative energies and potencies are there in God
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2023-05-27, 14:16:13
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