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Iccha-sakti, this potency of will, supreme will, and the potency of supreme hand and the potency of supreme knowledge, these three things are conducting all affairs in this material world

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Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures

Icchā-śakti, this potency of will, supreme will, and the potency of supreme hand and the potency of supreme knowledge, these three things are conducting all affairs in this material world.

Just like you see the physiolo . . . anatomical condition of your body. Now, how this body is produced, how nicely, that every mechanical arrangement, the . . . (indistinct) . . . and the . . . just like a big factory and big office. The brain is the office and stomach is the factory, and it is creating energy, it is coming to the heart and another place . . . just like soap factory. Sometimes, in some place, it is being . . . some part of the manufacture is finished, another . . . in this way it is going on. But it is coming out a small pea. And how it is developing. In everything you can see. You take a seed, how it develops, a great tree. How much potency is there.

So svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca. Everything is being done. I do not know. I claim, "It is my body," but I do not know how even a hair is growing. I do not know how it is replaced. I cut in the morning, and the next day I see again there is. So these things are going on. Svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca. We have to study God's activity in this way, so many things, nature's study. So those who are intelligent, they can see that these things are working. What is that? Icchā-śakti, kriyā-śakti, jñāna-śakti, these three potencies of God, Kṛṣṇa, is working.

icchā-śakti-pradhāna kṛṣṇa-icchāya sarva-kartā
jñāna-śakti-pradhāna vāsudeva adhiṣṭhātā
(CC Madhya 20.253)

Now, out of these three different potencies, then Kṛṣṇa expands Himself also to conduct or to control or to act on these three potential power. The icchā-śakti, willing potency, that is being controlled by Kṛṣṇa, and, er, jñāna-śakti, that is being controlled by His expansion which is known as Vāsudeva.

Icchā-jñāna vinā nā haya sṛjana. Without desire and without knowledge, nothing can be created. Nothing. Suppose we are manufacturing so many things. Now, the manufacturer is first of all thinking, willing, that "This sort of thing, if we manufacture, it will be very nicely sold in the market." That is icchā-śakti. Then he acts, acts on it. That is called jñāna-śakti. Without jñāna, without willing, nothing is produced. So whenever you find something produced, you must know behind that production there is that will, the supreme will, the supreme knowledge. This is study. Icchā-śakti-jñāna . . .

icchā-jñāna vinā nā haya sṛjana
tinera tina-śakti meli' prapañca-racana
(CC Madhya 20.254)

So this icchā-śakti, this potency of will, supreme will, and the potency of supreme hand and the potency of supreme knowledge, these three things are conducting all affairs in this material world.

kriyā-śakti-pradhāna saṅkarṣaṇa balarāma
prākṛtāprākṛta-sṛṣṭi karena nirmāṇa
(CC Madhya 20.255)

And the potency of activity, that is being done by the expansion of Saṅkarṣaṇa, either in this material world or in the spiritual world. So parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8).

In this way the Lord is working in so many ways, and because we have no knowledge, we think that "There is no brain behind it. There is no knowledge behind it. Everything is coming out automatically, and we are the master of everything." That is called illusion. So by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you will be free from this illusion, and you will know how God is working by His different potential power.

Page Title:Iccha-sakti, this potency of will, supreme will, and the potency of supreme hand and the potency of supreme knowledge, these three things are conducting all affairs in this material world
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2023-05-09, 06:14:20
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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