Pradyumna: "The Blessed Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas."
Prabhupāda: Yes. One who knows this tree, he knows the Vedas. That means the Vedas says, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). That is the Vedānta-sūtra. Wherefrom this material world is coming? That is Absolute Truth. The atheist class men, they cannot think that there is a cause. In the Sixteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā: jagad āhur anīśvara. Jagad āhur anīśvara. What is that? Find out. Sixteenth Chapter. They say that this material cosmic manifestation, manifestation, this world is... Uh? Uh?
Pradyumna: Could we have the verse again?
Devotee: Jagad ahur anīśvaram (BG 16.8).
Prabhupāda: No, that is the last word. You find out, Sixteenth Chapter.
Pradyumna: Tasmāc chāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te...
Prabhupāda: No, no, no. In the beginning. Beginning, read, Sixteenth Chapter.
Pradyumna:
- abhayaṁ sattva-saṁśuddhir
- jñāna-yoga-vyavasthitiḥ
- dānaṁ damaś ca yajñaś ca
- svādhyāyas tapa ārjavam
- ahiṁsā satyam akrodhas
- tyāgaḥ śāntir apaiśunam
- dayā bhūteṣv aloluptvaṁ
- mārdavaṁ hrīr acāpalam
- tejaḥ kṣamā dhṛtiḥ śaucam
- adroho nāti mānitā
- bhavanti sampadaṁ daivīm
- abhijātasya bhārata
- (Bg. 16.1-3)
Prabhupāda: Daivīm. These are daivī sampada, spiritual qualifications.