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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
A DEVOTEE:  Just like—aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy—a product of the sun's energy?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes, but who produced the sun? That is Kṛṣṇa's energy. Because it is heat, and Kṛṣṇa says,  bhūmīr āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ : "Heat—that is My energy." The sun is the representation of the heating energy of Kṛṣṇa. It is not your energy. You cannot say, "The sun is made by me." But somebody must have made it, and Kṛṣṇa says that He did. So, we believe Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we are Kṛṣṇa-ites.
BOB:  Kṛṣṇa-ites?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. Our knowledge is perfect. If I say that heat is the energy of Kṛṣṇa, you cannot deny it, because it is not your energy. In your body there is some certain amount of heat. Similarly, heat is someone's energy. And who is that person? That is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, "Yes, it is My energy." So my knowledge is perfect. Because I take the version of the greatest scientist, I am the greatest scientist. I may be a fool personally, but because I take knowledge from the greatest scientist, I am the greatest scientist. I have no difficulty.
BOB:  Excuse me?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  I have no difficulty in becoming the greatest scientist because I take the knowledge from the greatest scientist. [ There is a long pause. ] "This earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and ego—they are My eight separated energies."
BOB:  They are  separated energies ?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. Just like this milk. What is this milk? The separated energy of the cow. [ Śyāmasundara and Bob, stunned, laugh in realization. ] Is it not? It is the manifestation of the separated energy of the cow.
ŚYĀMASUNDARA:  Is it like a by-product?