Natural Prosperity
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A woman in touch with a man becomes agitated and becomes pregnant and then gives birth to children. The whole creation follows a similar process. Simply by Kṛṣṇa's glance, matter becomes agitated and then becomes pregnant and gives birth to the living entities. It is simply by His glance that plants, trees, animals, and all other living beings come forth. How is this possible? None of us can say, "Simply by glancing over my wife, I can make her pregnant." But although this is impossible for us, it is not impossible for Kṛṣṇa. The  Brahma-samhitā  (5.32) says,  aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti : every part of Kṛṣṇa's body has all the capabilities of the other parts. With our eyes we can only see, but Kṛṣṇa, merely by seeing, can make others pregnant. There is no need of sex, for simply by glancing, Kṛṣṇa can create pregnancy.
In  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.10) Lord Kṛṣṇa says,  mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram : "By My supervision, material nature gives birth to all moving and nonmoving beings." The word  akṣa  means "eyes," so  akṣeṇa  indicates that all living entities take birth because of the Lord's glance. There are two kinds of living entities—the moving beings, like insects, animals, and human beings, and the nonmoving beings, like trees and plants. In Sanskrit these two kinds of living entities are called  sthavara-jaṅgama , and they both come forth from material nature.
Of course, what comes from material nature is not the life, but the body. The living entities accept particular types of bodies from material nature, just as a child takes its body from its mother. For ten months the child's body develops from the blood and nutrients of the mother's body, but the child is a living entity, not matter. It is the living entity that has taken shelter in the womb of the mother, who then supplies the ingredients for that living entity's body. This is nature's way. The mother may not know how from her body another body has been created, but when the body of the child is fit, the child takes birth.
It is not that the living entity takes birth. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (2.20),  na jāyate mriyate vā : the living entity neither takes birth nor dies. That which does not take birth does not die; death is meant for that which has been created, and that which is not created has no death. The  Gītā  says,  na jāyate mriyate vā kadācit . The word  kadācit  means "at any time." At no time does the living entity actually take birth. Although we may see that a child is born, actually it is not born.  Nityaḥ śāśvato 'yam purāṇaḥ . The living entity is eternal ( śāśvata ), always existing, and very, very old ( purāṇa ).  Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre : don't think that when the body is destroyed the living entity will be destroyed; no, the living entity will continue to exist.