Text 18] Svayambhuva Manu Advises Dhruva Maharaja 467

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-gita—behind all material action and reaction
there is Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Krsna says that every-
thing 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-gita it is also said that the Lord impregnates the material
energy with the part and parcel jivas, and thus the different forms and
different activities immediately ensue. Because of the different desires and
karmic activities of the jiva 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 men-
tioned here as nimitta-matram, the remote cause. He simply pushes the
wheel with His energy. According to the Mayavadi 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 re-
action of the material gunas, although He is the cause of all causes. Lord
Brahma says, therefore, in the Brahma-samhita: tsvarah paramah krsnah
sac-cid-Gnanda-vigrahah/ anddir ddir govindah sarva-kdrana-karanam. There
are many causes and effects, but the original cause is Sri Krsna.

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sa khalv idam bhagavan kala-saktya
guna-pravahena vibhakta-viryah
karoty akartaiva nihanty ahanta
cesta vibhumnah khalu durvibhavya
