Krishna's singular consciousness manifests infinite varieties through His potencies, uniting absolute oneness with inconceivable diversity.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.45 — January 20, 1975, Bombay 750120SB-BOMBAY [35:19 Minutes] SB-03.26.45_750120SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] karambha-pūti-saurabhyaśāntogrāmlādibhiḥ pṛthak dravyāvayava-vaiṣamyād gandha eko vibhidyate [SB 3.26.45] [break] [02:24] "Odor, although one, becomes many—as mixed, offensive, fragrant, mild, strong, acidic and so on—according to the proportions of associated substances." Prabhupāda: karambha-pūti-saurabhyaśāntogrāmlādibhiḥ pṛthak dravyāvayava-vai...?
What is that? vaiṣamyād gandha eko vibhidyate. [SB 3.26.45] In the previous verse the gandha, from gandha, from smell, fragrance or smell, ghrāṇas tu gandhagaḥ [SB 3.26.44]. So in the smelling power, nostril, they perceive different varieties. Variety is there.
Although the thing is one, one Kṛṣṇa, but even in His material energy, He is perceived in varieties of things. That is the purpose of this Sāṅkhya philosophy, how one has become many, ekaṁ bahu syām. So intelligence is to know the one as well as the varieties. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca [Bs. 5.33]. The Māyāvādī philosophers, they simply take one side, oneness.
Ekaṁ brahma dvitīyaṁ nāsti. That is fact. Dvitī... There is no dvitīya.
Dvitīyābhiniveśa means māyā. Everywhere, Kṛṣṇa is there. Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham [Bs. 5.35]. The materialistic scientists, they take the ultimate cause of this material world: the atom.
Now this atomic theory, paramāṇu. Paramāṇu. You have seen the paramāṇu. In your room, if there is a hole and sunshine is coming through that hole, you will find in that sunshine, sun rays, there are millions of small particles.
That is called paramāṇu. Aṇu, paramāṇu. So then there is aṇu also, smaller than that. Six aṇus combined together becomes a paramāṇu.