Krishna eternally fathers infinite individual souls through nature; variety itself proves His supremacy and personal love.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.10 — March 27, 1972, Bombay 720327BG-BOMBAY [30:49 Minutes] Bg-07.10_720327BG-BOMBAY Śyāmasundara: Morning, March 27th, 1972, morning lecture, Juhu.
Prabhupāda: …bhūtānāṁ viddhi pārtha sanātanam buddhir buddhimatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham [Bg. 7.10] Now Kṛṣṇa says, bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ. Bījaṁ means seed. Yathā-bījaṁ yathā-yoni [SB 6.1.54]. For generating, there are two parts: the male part and female part.
So the male part is Kṛṣṇa, bījaṁ, and the female part is the material nature. Ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pita [Bg. 14.4], in another place it is stated. Sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ. Sarva-yoniṣu.
Yoni means the source of birth, mother; and bījaṁ means father. So this material world, anything which is visible or not visible, they are born of these two parts: sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ tāsāṁ mahad yonir [Bg. 14.4] Mahat, this mahat-tattva, total material energy. So one can understand by taking lesson from different varieties of living entities coming out of this material nature. Just like there is one earth, but different varieties of plants are coming out, even without our endeavor. Of course, in our garden we take care of sowing different types of seeds, but in a jungle you can go and see there are varieties of plants and trees; they are coming out of the earth and they are producing different varieties of fruits and flowers.
So, "The variety is the mother of enjoyment." You cannot make it impersonal. Variety means each and every thing is a personal, individual being. That is variety. As Kṛṣṇa has already explained, puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṁ ca [Bg. 7.9]. There are reservoir of different flavor within the earth, but according to the bīja, they are coming out differently.
There is rose scent, there is lotus scent, there are varieties of scent—they are already within the earth. But our materialistic scientist, they cannot take out any flavor from the earth. They have to take the flavor from the flowers, not from the earth. So ultimately, as Kṛṣṇa says, that ahaṁ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayas tathā [Bg. 7.6]: ultimately He is the origin of everything, sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam. We should always remember this verse of Brahmā-saṁhitā. īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam [Brahmā-saṁhitā 5.1] Now here is the difference between God and human being.
We are also part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so we have got all the qualities of God, but in very, very minute quantity, because we are very minute. Therefore all the qualities of God which we have inherited, or which are already within us, they are also very minute. The intelligence is also minute. Everything is minute. Somebody was talking with me that "Why should we give more credit to Kṛṣṇa, or God?