Prabhupada, San Francisco, July 21, 1975:
This is the Vedic statement, that “The Absolute Truth is so perfect, He has got so many potencies, that everything is being done so perfectly.” Just like one artist. If he wants to paint one picture, one flower, he has to give his attention in so many ways. He has to move the brush in such a way and take this color, different colors. It requires so many artistic sense and so much good sense, so many things. It does not come. One who is not artist, not painter, he cannot paint. So do you think this flower which is coming out daily in your garden in different colors and different smell and flavor, they are being done without any artistic sense?
This is nonsense. There is sense. There is God’s potency. But parasya saktih, His senses, His knowledge, is so perfect that it is coming automatically, and we foolish people, we think that nature is producing. No, nature is the instrument, just like the brush, but the brain is God. That is Krsna consciousness. These rascal scientists, they do not know that. They deny God.

So therefore veda-pranihito dharmah. So how God is working, how His brush is moving, how the things are coming out so nicely, how much great brain He has got… Krsna says, mattah parataram nanyat. Krsna says, “There is no more good brain than Me.” He says. Mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya [Bg. 7.7]. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. The prakrti, nature, is instrument. Nature is not brain. Just like nowadays you have got very complicated machine, computer. The computer machine is not brain; the man who is pushing the buttons, he has got the brain. So we have to learn like that. Therefore we have to take knowledge from Krsna, and Krsna is giving knowledge directly in the Bhagavad-gita. So if you read and accept it as it is without any foolishness, then you become perfectly in knowledge.

Thank you very much. (end)