Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya-lila 20.113

God's Inconceivable Energy Proven by Logic, Vedic Knowledge Reveals the Supreme Father

📅 July 23, 1976 📍 London ⏱ 29 min
Divine mysteries transcend human logic; accept Krishna's authority rather than arrogantly probe the inconceivable.
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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [chants verse, etc.] śaktayaḥ sarva-bhāvānām acintya-jñāna-gocarāḥ yato 'to brahmaṇas tās tu sargādyā bhāva-śaktayaḥ bhavanti taptatāṁ śreṣṭha pāvakasya yathoṣṇatā [Cc Madhya 20.113] [02:37] Translation: "All the creative energies, which are inconceivable to a common man, exist in the Supreme Absolute Truth. These inconceivable energies act in the process of creation, maintenance and annihilation.

O chief of the ascetics, just as there are two energies possessed by fire—namely heat and light—these inconceivable creative energies are the natural characteristics of the Absolute Truth." [break] Prabhupāda: ...full of living entities, and the moon planet there is no living entity. They are doubting also in the Mars planet. But we get information from the śāstra that every planet is full of living entities. Every planet.

Jana-kīrṇa. This very word is said in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, jana-kīrṇa, and there is vivid description of different planets and different types of oceans, just like milk ocean. We have got here examples, sweet water and salted water. So there is sweet ocean also.

That is mentioned in the śāstra. Not that in this planet there is salted ocean and... There are other planets where there is sweet-water ocean and milk ocean and liquor ocean and oil ocean, ghee ocean, butter ocean, milk..., butter ocean, and so many different types. So if we bring everything to our conception, that becomes cintya, conceivable. But that is not the fact.

Therefore here it is stated, acintya-jñāna-gocarāḥ. We have to receive this knowledge from sources which can inform us about all these things inconceivable by us. It is not possible to bring the inconceivable within our conceivable limit. That is not possible.

That is foolishness. Mūḍha. Mūḍha will not believe. We are finding out, try to...

This is knowledge. Athāto brahma-jijñāsā, janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1], to find out the source of everything, the Absolute Truth. And when the Absolute Truth comes down to inform us, Kṛṣṇa, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate [Bg 10.8], we don't believe it. First of all we cannot understand it, and if the Supreme Personality of Godhead comes personally to speak about Himself, we do not believe it.

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