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the power of creation. Therefore he asked all the above questions. Discoveries of progressive scientific achievements are therefore not independent. The scientist has to attain the knowledge of a thing already existing by means of the wonderful brain made by someone else. A scientist can work with the help of such an awarded brain, but it is not possible for the scientist to create his own or a similar brain. Therefore no one is independent in the matter of any creation, nor is such creation automatic.
TEXT 5
आत्मन् भावयसे तानि न पराभावयन् स्वयम्।  
 आत्मशक्तिमवष्टभ्य अर्गनामिरिवाह्यमः ॥ ५ ॥
ātman bhāvayase tāni 
    na parābhāvayan svayam 
    ātma-śaktim avaṣṭabhya 
    ūrṇanābhir ivāklamaḥ
ātman (ātmani)—by self; bhāvayase—manifest; tāni—all those; na—not; parābhāvayan—being defeated; svayam—yourself; ātma-śaktim—self-sufficient power; avaṣṭabhya—being employed; ūrṇanābhiḥ—the spider; iva—like; aklamaḥ—without help.
TRANSLATION
As the spider very easily creates the network of its cobweb and manifests its power of creation without being defeated by others, so also you yourself, by employment of your self-sufficient energy, create without any other's help.
PURPORT
The best example of self-sufficiency is the sun. The sun does not require to be illuminated by any other body. Rather, it is the sun which helps all other illuminating agents, for in the presence of the sun no other illuminating agent becomes prominent. Nārada compared the position of Brahmā with the self-sufficiency of the spider, who creates its own field of activities without any other's help by employment of its own energetic creation of saliva.