Text 82] Pastimes of Childhood and Youth 241

For example, the lemon tree is aliving entity that produces many lemons, and within
each lemon is a great deal of citric acid. Therefore, if even an insignificant living
entity who is but a part of the Supreme Lord can produce so much of a chemical,
how much potency there must be in the body of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead.

Scientists cannot perfectly explain where the chemicals of the world are manu-
factured, but one can explain this perfectly by accepting the inconceivable energy
of the Supreme Lord. There is no reason for denying this argument. Since there
are potencies in the living entities who are samples of the Personality of Godhead,
how much potency there must be in the Supreme Godhead Himself. As described
in the Vedas, nityo nityaGnarn cetanas cetandndm: ‘‘He is the chief eternal of all
eternals and the chief living entity among all living entities.” (Katha Upanisad,
2.2.13)

Unfortunately, atheistic science will not accept that matter comes from life.
Scientists insist upon their most illogical and foolish theory that life comes from
matter, although this is quite impossible. They cannot prove in their laboratories
that matter can produce life, yet there are thousands and thousands of examples
illustrating that matter comes from life. Therefore in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami says that as soon as one accepts the inconceivable
potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, no great philosopher or scientist
can put forward any thesis to contradict the Lord’s power. This is expressed in the
following Sanskrit verse.

TEXT 82

MNT ATSt SEU FATS TTSTTY |
yafefe Serax tetcwreraetaw) wt ree i

ambujam ambini jdtarn kvacid
api na j@tam ambujad ambu

mura-bhidi tad-viparitarn
padambhojdan mahd-nadi jaté

SYNONYMS

ambujam—lotus flower; ambéni—in the water; j@tam—is grown; Rvacit—at any
time; opi—certainly; na—not; jatam—grown; ambujat—from a lotus flower; ambu—
water; mura-bhidi—in the killer of Murasura (Krsna); tat-viparitam—just the opposite
of that; pada-ambhojat—from the lotus flower of His feet; mahd-nadi—the great
river; jdt@—has grown.

TRANSLATION

“Everyone knows that lotus flowers grow in the water but water never grows
from a lotus. Ail such contradictions, however, are wonderfully possible in Krsna.
The great River Ganges has grown from His lotus feet.
