Text 37] King Citraketu Meets the Lord 123
of Godhead is the cause of all causes, He can produce immense quantities
of chemicals to create a situation for chemical evolution. We actually see
that chemicals are produced from living entities. For example, a lemon
tree produces many tons of citric acid. The citric acid is not the cause of
the tree; rather, the tree is the cause of the acid. Similarly, the Supreme

Personality of Godhead is the cause of everything. He is the cause of the
tree that produces the citric acid (bijarh mam sarva-bhitanam). Devo-
tees can see that the original potencies causing the cosmic manifestation
are not in chemicals but in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for He
is the cause of the chemicals.

Everything is caused or manifested by the energy of the Supreme
Lord, and when everything is annihilated or dissolved, the original
potency enters the body of the Supreme Lord. Therefore this verse says,
Gdav ante ‘pi ca sattvandm yad dhruvam tad evantardle ‘pi. The word
dhruvam means “permanent.” The permanent reality is Krsna, not this
cosmic manifestation. As stated in Bhagavad-gitaé, aham ddir hi
devanam and mattah sarvam pravartate: Krsna is the original cause of
everything. Arjuna recognized Lord Sri Krsna as the original person
(purusam sasvatarn divyam Gdi-devam ajarh vibhum), and the Brahma-
samhita describes Him as the original person (govindam ddi-purusam).
He is the cause of all causes, whether at the beginning, at the end or in
the middle.

TEXT 37
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ksity-adibhir esa kildvrtah
saptabhir dasa-gunottarair anda-kosah
yatra pataty anu-kalpah
sahdnda-koti-kotibhis tad anantah
ksiti-adibhih—by the ingredients of the material world, headed by
earth: esah—this; kila—indeed; dvrtah—covered; saptabhih—seven;
