God is the unmoved first mover whose infinite intelligence orchestrates all existence through deliberate divine order.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture [Gaurasundara Speaks] — March 30, 1969, Hawaii 690330LE-HAWAII [41:43 Minutes] Lecture_690330LE-HAWAII Gaurasundara: …parama-guru, Śrī-Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī has discussed that this world is like a museum and you can understand it if you just consider it. If you know so many corridors of the museum, so many displays but one thing that we don't know very well is the curator or the proprietor of the museum. We sometimes become fascinated how intricately things are working but still that's so foolish, as to insult the curator by denying his existence. Anyway there are many observations that we could make to better understand our situation. So I think I will try and set forward a few of these. One thing is that we can notice the feature of motion in this existence all around us.
So unless we consider motion apart from the even more deluding aspects of time. Motion can be seen in any natural body, take for example a ball. A ball has the tendency if it is not in motion to remain at rest and if this contacted by another mover or an entity in motion then that ball can begin to move. There is a law in physics that was formulated by Newton. That a body at rest will remain at rest in the absence of contact with a body in motion.
So some of us this becomes obvious, that we can understand the sequence of mover and the moved. Something that is at rest in order to begin to move it has to be touched by a mover. We can examine everything around us. For example if we see a ball rolling down the street we can understand that the cause of that ball coming down the street is a bat and that bat is also being moved by a boy. So in this way we can understand the process of mover, the move and the movement like this.
Now the sign[?] is the sequence of mover and the mover. mover[?] can't go on to infinity. There has to be a first mover if there is no first mover there can be no first step in motion and this is being plainly false[?] you can see there is motion. The point is there has to be first mover and then there can be subsequent motion and this first mover everybody that can see[?] and understood as God. Now some people put forward the theory that motion can go on to infinity, mover mover movement movement like that. The confusion which results in from the fact that God is infinite. We could say that motion could go on to the infinite but it can't go on to infinity.
There has to be the first mover or the whole thing is simply not being operated. Anyway there are many analysis that we can put like this and there are many examples which we can give. Just like many years ago I had a friend who was very fond of dominoes and he had a large selection of dominoes. So sometimes children stack these dominoes, they play dominoes with two inches. They stack them one inch apart and make a long, long chain of dominoes. From one room leading into another, then if you get at the end of that chain simply push on the first domino and that will knock the second domino, third domino.
Like this. You can also be in the next room and round the corner and if someone had seen a chain of fallen dominoes. And this is something children sort of stare at, you know in awe of the impresidence but this is like this process of cause and effect and people if they have any sense of. If they have any intelligence to have some awe when they see this process of motion going on all around it. So much inexplicable[?] motion. Anyway the point behind all this again is that we should analyse how all this is taking place and not to be bewildered by it because we are caught up in the middle of this process and we have to have some understanding about what our position is.
This analysis of motion is similar to another sort of analysis that we can make. That is in the way that things are ordered and the way that so-called natural body. This natural body is a term that is used in philosophy meaning simply some material entity. Natural body which has no intelligence and acts repeatedly in the same way for achieving the same results. Like there are many examples here again, for example the large body of water, the ocean. Can be observed and as we see the water is evaporated from the ocean and by evaporation the water becomes pure.