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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 29]
TRANSLATION
Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the trees, creepers, herbs and seasonal plants and flowers blossom and fructify, each in its own season.
PURPORT
As the sun rises and sets and the seasonal changes ensue at their appointed times by the superintendence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so the seasonal plants, flowers, herbs and trees all grow under the direction of the Supreme Lord. It is not that plants grow automatically, without any cause, as the atheistic philosophers say. Rather, they grow in pursuance of the supreme order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is confirmed in the Vedic literature that the Lord's diverse energies are working so nicely that it appears that everything is being done automatically.
TEXT 42
स्रवन्ति सरितो भीता नोत्सर्पत्युदधिर्यतः। अग्निरिन्धे सगिरिभिर्भूर्न मज्जति यद्भयात् ॥४२॥
sravanti sarito bhītā notsarpaty udadhir yataḥ agnir indhe sagiribhir bhūr na majjati yad-bhayāt
sravanti—flow; saritaḥ—rivers; bhītāḥ—fearful; na—not; utsarpati—overflows; uda-dhiḥ—the ocean; yataḥ—because of whom; agniḥ—fire; indhe—burns; sa-giribhiḥ—with its mountains; bhūḥ—the earth; na—not; majjati—sinks; yat—of whom; bhayāt—out of fear.
TRANSLATION
Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the rivers flow, and the ocean never overflows. Out of fear of Him only does fire burn and does the earth, with its mountains, not sink in the water of the universe.
PURPORT
We can understand from the Vedic literature that this universe is half filled with water, on which Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is lying. From His