Text 34] The Residents of Jambiadvipa Offer Prayers 211
twenty-four elements. Therefore if one is interested in Sankhya
philosophy, by which one can enumerate the different truths, he
must hear it from You. Unfortunately, nondevotees simply count
the different elements and remain ignorant of Your actual form. I
offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

PURPORT

Philosophers and scientists have been trying to study the entire cosmic
situation and have been theorizing and calculating in different ways for
millions and millions of years. However, the speculative research work
of a so-called scientist or philosopher is always interrupted when he dies,
and the laws of nature go on without regard for his work.

For billions of years changes take place in the material creation, until
at last the whole universe is dissolved and remains in an unmanifested
state. Constant change and destruction (bhitvd bhitvd praliyate) is per-
petually going on in nature, yet the material scientists want to study
natural laws without knowing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who
is the background of nature. As Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita (9.10):

mayadhyaksena prakrtih
stiyate sa-cardcaram
hetundnena kaunteya
Jagad viparivartate
“This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunti.
and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this
manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.”

Now the material creation is manifest, eventually it will be annihilated
and remain for many millions of years in a dormant state, and finally it
will again be created. This is the law of nature.

TEXT 34
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