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The sun is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā as the eyes for all the planets. Yac cakṣur eṣa, eṣa sakala-grahāṇāṁ cakṣuḥ. The sun is the actual eyes for all the planets, because unless there is sunshine you cannot see. We are very much proud of our eyes. Sometimes we challenge, "Can you show me God?".
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So on account of Kṛṣṇa's bodily rays, the whole creation is coming out. That is Kṛṣṇa's inconceivable power, ''brahma-jyotir''. ''Janmādy asya yataḥ'' ([[vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). ''Athāto brahma jijñāsā.'' In the ''Vedānta-sūtra'', you have to inquire about that ''paraṁ jyoti'', ''brahma-jyotir''. And from that ''paraṁ jyoti'', everything is coming out. Just like from the sunshine. What is this material world? This material world is resting on the sunshine. Because the sunshine is there, therefore all the planets are rotating. There is a small machine, you'll find it. As soon as it is heated, within that machine the balls begin to rotate. Similarly, the certain temperature of the sunshine, the whole planetary system is rotating on the orbit, on account of the sunshine. This is scientifically true. And because there is sunshine, there is vegetation, there is water, there is rainfall, and from the rainfall, there is agricultural products.

So as the sunshine is the cause of all material variegatedness, similarly, the sunshine is also due to the ''brahma-jyotir''. The sunshine, ''yac cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇām.'' The sun is described in the ''Brahma-saṁhitā'' as the eyes for all the planets. ''Yac cakṣur eṣa, eṣa sakala-grahāṇāṁ cakṣuḥ''. The sun is the actual eyes for all the planets, because unless there is sunshine you cannot see. We are very much proud of our eyes. Sometimes we challenge, "Can you show me God?"

But he does not think that what power his eyes have got. It is completely dependent on the sunshine. If there is no sunshine, his so-called eyes is useless. Still, with that useless eyes he wants to see God. Just see, "Can you show me God? I am not seeing God, therefore God cannot be seen. Therefore I don't believe in God." But he does not think that what power he has got to see. It is only dependent on sunshine. Not only this planet, all the planets, unless there is sunshine . . . because it is darkness. This material world is simply darkness. ''Tamaso mā jyotir gama''. The Vedic instruction is that, "Don't keep yourself in this darkness of material world. Come out to the spiritual world." ''Jyotir gama''.