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Apareyam means

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"Apareyam"

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That is described in the Bhagavad-gītā: bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca (BG 7.4). Apareyam, the material nature, means earth, water, fire, air, ether, and the subtle materials, mind, intelligence, ego.
Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas:

Hayagrīva: And the, I believe the statement that "Since in the material world we see that nothing can create itself..." It requires something different...

Prabhupāda: Yes. Brain.

Hayagrīva: ...to bring it into existence.

Prabhupāda: Brain, yes.

Hayagrīva: Not..., nonmaterial.

Prabhupāda: We don't find, even the biggest mountain cannot create anything, but when the spirit soul or the human being takes a stone, he can give a form to the stone. But the mountain, although it is very big, it cannot give any particular form to the stone. It remains stone.

Hayagrīva: Unlike Plato and Aristotle, Aquinas believed that God created the universe out of nothing and He...

Prabhupāda: No.

Hayagrīva: He created the universe out of nothing.

Prabhupāda: No. The universe is created by God. How you can say "out of nothing"? God is there. So before creation of the universe God was there, so you cannot say that the universe was created out of nothing.

Hayagrīva: Well, but the material universe must have been created out of nothing, because it could not have arisen out of God's spiritual nature.

Prabhupāda: No. The material nature is also inferior nature of God. That is described in the Bhagavad-gītā: bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca (BG 7.4). Apareyam, the material nature, means earth, water, fire, air, ether, and the subtle materials, mind, intelligence, ego. They are all emanation from God, so actually they are not unreal but inferior. They are, it is called, bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā. They are separated material energy. We can have a little idea, just like we are speaking in the microphone, and it is being recorded in the tape recorder. When the tape recorder is replayed, the sound coming from exactly like the original person's sound, but it is not in touch with the person, but it has come from the person. If somebody does not see wherefrom the sound is coming, he can conjecture that such and such person speaking, although such and such person is away from that speaking engagement. Similarly, this material world is emanation, is expansion, of energy of the Supreme Lord, but it is not that this material world has come into existence from nothing. No. It has come from the Supreme Truth, but it is inferior energy. The superior energy is the spiritual world, which is reality. This, this cannot be supported, that material world has come from nothing.

Hayagrīva: Was created out of nothing.

Prabhupāda: What?

Hayagrīva: Didn't say... It was created by God out of nothing. In other words...

Prabhupāda: No.

Hayagrīva: ...the prakṛti had a beginning in time.

Prabhupāda: God has created from His energy.

Hayagrīva: But...

Prabhupāda: His energy, you cannot say nothing. Energy exhibited.

Hayagrīva: That energy is eternally existing with Him.

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Yes.

Hayagrīva: So, that's different, that's a different viewpoint.

Prabhupāda: Not viewpoint. Energy must be there. God, if He hasn't got energy, then how He is God? Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate (Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport), He has got multi-energies. So this is one of the energy exhibited. So you cannot say from nothing. God is everything.

Page Title:Apareyam means
Compiler:Vaishnavi
Created:18 of Nov, 2012
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1