10 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?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes, but who produced the sun?
That is Krsna’s energy. Because it is heat, and Krsna says,
bhimir apo ’nalo vayuh: “‘Heat—that is My energy.” The sun
is the representation of the heating energy of Krsna. It is not
your energy. You cannot say, ‘‘The sun is made by me.” But
somebody must have made it, and Krsna says that He did.
So, we believe Krsna. Therefore we are Krsna-ites.

BOB: Krsna-ites?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. Our knowledge is perfect. If I
say that heat is the energy of Krsna, you cannot deny it, be-
cause it is not your energy. In your body there is some cer-
tain amount of heat. Similarly, heat is someone’s energy.
And who is that person? That is Krsna. Krsna says, ‘Yes, it
is My energy’’ So my knowledge is perfect. Because I take
the version of the greatest scientist, I am the greatest scien-
tist. I may be a fool personally, but because I take knowl-
edge from the greatest scientist, I am the greatest scientist. I
have no difficulty.

BOB: Excuse me?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. Just like this milk. What is this
milk? The separated energy of the cow. [Syamasundara and
Bob, stunned, laugh in realization. Is it not? It is the
manifestation of the separated energy of the cow.
SYAMASUNDARA: Is it like a by-product?
