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Svāyambhuva Manu Advises Dhruva Mahārāja
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rotates, and several varieties of earthen pots come out. There are many causes for the earthen pots, but the original cause is the potter who sets a force on the wheel. That force comes by his superintendence. The same idea is explained in  Bhagavad-gītā —behind all material action and reaction there is Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa says that everything depends on His energy and yet He is not everywhere. The pot is produced under certain conditions of action and reaction of material energy, but the potter is not in the pot. In a similar way, the material creation is set up by the Lord, but He remains aloof. As stated in the  Vedas , He simply glanced over it, and the agitation of matter immediately began.
In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is also said that the Lord impregnates the material energy with the part and parcel  jīvas , and thus the different forms and different activities immediately ensue. Because of the different desires and karmic activities of the  jīva  soul, different types of bodies in different species are produced. In Darwin's theory there is no acceptance of the living entity as spirit soul, and therefore his explanation of evolution is incomplete. Varieties of phenomena occur within this universe on account of the action and reaction of the three material modes, but the original creator, or the cause, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is mentioned here as  nimitta-mātram , the remote cause. He simply pushes the wheel with His energy. According to the Māyāvādī philosophers, the Supreme Brahman has transformed Himself into many varieties of forms, but that is not the fact. He is always transcendental to the action and reaction of the material  guṇas , although He is the cause of all causes. Lord Brahmā says, therefore, in the  Brahma-saṁhitā :  īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ/ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam . There are many causes and effects, but the original cause is Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
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स खल्विदं भगवान् कालशक्त्या
गुणप्रवाहेण विभक्तवीर्यः ।
करोत्यकतैव निहन्त्यहन्ता
चेष्टा विभूमः खलु दुर्विभाव्या ॥१८॥
sa khalv idaṁ bhagavān kāla-śaktyā
guṇa-pravāheṇa vibhakta-vīryaḥ
karoty akartaiva nihanty ahantā
ceṣṭā vibhūmnaḥ khalu durvibhāvyā