26 Raja-vidya: The King of Knowledge

“How is that?”

“You can see that I am sitting under this banyan
tree,” the cobbler answered, “‘and you can see that
so many fruits are falling daily, and in each seed
there is a banyan tree like this one. If, within a
small seed there can be a big tree like this, is it
difficult to accept that the Lord is pushing an ele-
phant through the eye of a needle?”

So this is called faith. It is not a question of blindly
believing. There is reason behind the belief. If Krsna
can put a large tree within so many little seeds, is it
so astounding that He is keeping all the planetary
systems floating in space through His energy?

Although scientists may think that the planets are
being held in space simply by nature alone, behind
nature there is the Supreme Lord. Nature is acting
under His guidance. As Sri Krsna states:

mayadhyaksena prakrtih
suyate sa-caracaram

hetunanena kaunteya
Jagad viparivartate

“This material nature is working under My direction,
O son of Kuntt, and is producing all moving and un-
moving beings. By its rule this manifestation is being
created and annihilated again and again.” (Bg. 9.10)

Mayadhyaksena means “under My supervision.”
Material nature cannot act so wonderfully unless the
Lord’s hand is behind it. We cannot give any example
of material things automatically working. Matter is
inert, and without the spiritual touch there is no
possibility of its acting. Matter cannot act indepen-
