Krishna is the eternal seed and superintending intelligence behind all creation's perfect design.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.9–10 — February 24, 1974, Bombay 740224BG-BOMBAY [36:36 Minutes] Bg-07.09–10_740224BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṁ ca tejaś cāsmi vibhāvasau jīvanaṁ sarva-bhūteṣu tapaś cāsmi tapasviṣu [Bg. 7.9] Prabhupāda: Next verse also. Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ viddhi pārtha sanātanam buddhir buddhimatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham [Bg. 7.10] [leads chanting of synonyms for both verses] [break] [05:14] Translation: "I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire.
I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics. O son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent and the prowess of all powerful men." Prabhupāda: puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṁ ca tejaś cāsmi vibhāvasau jīvanaṁ sarva-bhūteṣu tapaś cāsmi tapasviṣu [Bg. 7.9] Puṇyo gandhaḥ: it may be original, also the fragrant. Just like there are some flowers like rose, the fragrance is very nice. Of course, all fragrance is varieties, but pṛthivyāṁ ca, the fragrance is coming from the earth.
It is not synthetic fragrance. So the same earth, the same watering, the same, what is called, sāra? For growing the trees, you... Devotee: Manure. Prabhupāda: Manure. The same manure, same water, the same gardener, but according to different flowers, the fragrance is different.
How this is done? Can any scientist answer? How it is coming differently? And why there are differences?
If it is nature, then the ingredients are the same. Why nature is not producing the same quality or the same kind of flower or trees or fruits? Why? Therefore it is answered in the Bhagavad-gītā that nature is not all in all.
Nature cannot work independently. Nature is the material world, material elements. So it is answered there in the Bhagavad-gītā: mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram [Bg. 9.10]. There is superintendence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. He, He likes that "This kind of bīja, or the seed, will produce this kind of flower and this kind of flavor." The superintendence is there of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
We fools, we say, we cannot explain. We say "nature." What is this nature? There must be brain behind the nature. Otherwise, how a rose, so nicely it is coming?