Nature perfectly supplies all needs when humanity remains obedient and Krishna conscious.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.5 — August 28, 1973, London 730828SB-LONDON [44:01 Minutes] SB-01.10.05_730828SB-LONDON Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] nadyaḥ samudrā girayaḥ savanaspati-vīrudhaḥ phalanty oṣadhayaḥ sarvāḥ kāmam anvṛtu tasya vai [SB 1.10.5] [break] nadyaḥ—rivers; samudrāḥ—oceans; girayaḥ—hills and mountains; savanaspati—vegetables; vīrudhaḥ—creepers; phalanti—active; oṣadhayaḥ—drugs; sarvāḥ—all; kāmam—necessities; anvṛtu—seasonal; tasya—for the King; vai—certainly. [01:46] Translation: "The rivers, oceans, hills, mountains, forest, creepers and active drugs in every season paid their tax quota to the king in profusion." Prabhupāda: Yesterday we discussed sarva-dughā mahī. Sarva-dughā mahī. Sarva-kāma-dughā mahī.
This land, mahī, can give you everything. Actually it is giving. We cannot manufacture anything. The land is there.
Bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ [Bg. 7.4], these are the gifts of Kṛṣṇa. These are the ingredients. In this material world, whatever you see, they are preparation of these five gross ingredients. Nothing more.
Bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ kham. Land, water, bhūmir āpaḥ anala, fire, vāyuḥ, air, and kham means the sky, ether. This is the ingredients of all material civilization, grossly. And subtle: mano buddhir ahaṅkāra [Bg. 7.4], mind, intelligence and egotism.
These are the eight gross and subtle elements. Now, by the mixture of these things, we find so many things. Now, how the bhūmi, or the land, gives us sufficient supply? Therefore there is arrangement of the river, nadī, nadyaḥ. And the stock of water is there in the ocean.
It is practical. Just like you keep some stock of water according to your measurement. This stock of water is the ocean, because we require so much water. In India it is said that "You are spending like water." India is tropical country.
They use profusely water. There are many rivers also. They take bath in the river, especially Ganges River. There are five very sacred river: the Ganges, Yamunā, Narmadā, Godāvarī, Kṛṣṇā. Big, big rivers there are.