So the actual fact is from spirit soul, the energy, material energy comes out. Take for example... That I was giving, that chemicals. Now, take one lemon tree. It is a living entity, and it is producing at least hundreds of pounds of citric acid, lemons. Everyone knows. You take fifty lemons today, again take fifty lemons, and if you extract the lemons, you'll find extensive quantity of citric acid. So wherefrom the citric acid chemical comes? Because the living entity's there in the tree. Therefore the conclusion should be the chemicals come from life; life does not come from chemical. If life comes from chemical, then you produce. I give you the chemical, whatever chemicals you want. So chemical is produced. Just like you have got experience when there is perspiration. You taste the perspiration; there is salt.
Lemon
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 6
They think that everything evolved from chemicals, but where did the chemicals come from? That they do not know. Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of all causes, He can produce immense quantities of chemicals to create a situation for chemical evolution. We actually see that chemicals are produced from living entities. For example, a lemon tree produces many tons of citric acid. The citric acid is not the cause of the tree; rather, the tree is the cause of the acid. Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of everything. He is the cause of the tree that produces the citric acid (bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānām (BG 7.10)). Devotees can see that the original potencies causing the cosmic manifestation are not in chemicals but in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for He is the cause of the chemicals.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
Where do all these chemicals come from? The answer is that they are produced by the inconceivable energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Living entities are part of the Supreme Godhead, and from their bodies come many chemicals. For example, the lemon tree is a living entity that produces many lemons, and within each lemon is a great deal of citric acid. Therefore, if even an insignificant living entity who is but a part of the Supreme Lord can produce so much of a chemical, how much potency there must be in the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
CC Madhya-lila
There were sugar-candy sweetmeats formed into the shape of orange, lemon and mango trees and arranged with fruits, flowers and leaves.
There were also various types of pickles—lemon pickle, berry pickle and so on. Indeed, I am not able to describe the variety of food offered to Lord Jagannātha.
“One day My mother, Śacī, offered food to Śālagrāma Viṣṇu. She offered rice cooked from śāli paddies, various kinds of vegetables, spinach, curry made of banana flowers, fried paṭola with nimba leaves, pieces of ginger with lemon, and also yogurt, milk, sugar candy and many other foods.
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
So these atheistic persons, in order to avoid Kṛṣṇa consciousness, in order to avoid Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Person, they push forward this theory that life is caused by matter. But that is not the fact. There are many instances. We can give many instances that life produces matter. Life... I can give you one small example. Just take, for example, one lemon tree. Lemon tree, it is also a living entity. Because there are eight million four hundred thousand species of living entities. Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati. Sthāvarāḥ means these trees, plants, creepers. They are two millions of varieties. So this ordinary lemon tree is producing so many lemons. And the lemon means citric acid. So if you take all these lemons, and take their juice, so one ordinary lemon tree produces tons of citric acid. It is a small living entity.
He has got such potency, unlimited. Unlimited potency. So where is the difficulty to understand that when Kṛṣṇa says: ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ (BG 10.8), "I produce everything..." The chemists, the scientists, they're beginning from chemical, but wherefrom the chemical came? That came from Kṛṣṇa. If some chemicals come, come from an insignificant lemon tree, how much chemicals can come from Kṛṣṇa?
Yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante. It is a simple common sense affair to understand that matter comes from life. And the Supreme Life is Kṛṣṇa. The Supreme Life is Kṛṣṇa. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). These are the versions of the Upaniṣads. Kṛṣṇa, or God... What is God? God means the Supreme Person. That's all. Just like I am person. You are also person. You may be bigger in quality, in opulence, than me.
You cannot manufacture life by combination of chemical. Chemical comes from life. In our book... What is that book? "Life Comes From Life." I have given this reason, that even though you think that chemical combination brings the living force, but the chemical is coming from life. Just like citric acid. The citric acid we see practically. There is a tree, lemon tree. This is life. The lemon tree is life. Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarāḥ. They are sthāvara life, non-moving life, but it is life. So from an insignificant lemon tree, tons of citric acid is coming. You have got experience. This lemon means citric acid. This chemical is coming from life. Without the tree, you cannot get this chemical, citric acid. From... Sometimes you have got experience. The perspiration is water, is coming from my body. The body is active so long I am there. So how you can say the chemical is coming from matter? No. Chemical is coming from life. Even if you accept that life is combination of chemicals, then chemical also coming from life.
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
You give the seed, sow the seed on the earth, and automatically the flower, flavor, beauty—everything will come automatically. There will be no... There is no question of accidents. The so-called scientist, they cannot explain. "Accidents." Why accidents? A rose flower seed-rose will come. Why not by accident, lemon? No. There is no such things as accidents. This is all rascaldom. Everything is going on... Parasya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate sva-bhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca. In the energy there is automatic knowledge and activities, and they are being manifested.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja says that "Everything, variety, is there, but..." Tvaṁ vā idaṁ sad-asad bhavān: "Except Yourself, to conceive anything else, that 'Beyond Kṛṣṇa there is anything,' that is māyā."
Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Svarūpa Dāmodara: The smaller birds, they are eating something from sand?
Prabhupāda: No, even for man. The cantaloupe, watermelon, they are produced in sand in large quantity. Kharmuja. (Bengali)
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Lemons also.
Prabhupāda: Not lemon. Watermelon. These are the products of the desert, as well as dates. Just like these date trees can grow in sand. (pause)
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Śrīla Prabhupāda, yesterday's Bhāgavata lecture, the example that the hundred dollar bill, one hundred dollar bill. So if somebody picks up and takes it, he's a thief, and if somebody who just does not care...
Prabhupāda: Does not take it.
Prabhupāda: Yes, everything. Mountains have been described in the Bhāgavata as the bones of God. These grasses are described as hairs on the body of God. These holes, there are holes, we saw that. They have been described as oceans. So in this way, this virāṭ, the biggest body. As the smallest body is producing chemical, similarly the biggest body also, producing chemical. A small tree, lemon tree, how many pounds of the citric acid it is produced?
Paramahaṁsa: I do not know.
Prabhupāda: No, producing, you know.
Paramahaṁsa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Now, when I was gṛhastha, so they offered tea, I said, "I don't take tea." Then they said "Milk?" "Yes, all right. You can give me milk." I'd take little milk. Or you can take little cold drink, soda water. That sugar and water, little lemon. He wants to offer you something. So there are so many other varieties, varieties. But if he insists, "You must take tea," that is not hospitality.
Guest (7): But what happens is somebody else comes in, you know.
Guest (8): Hospitality means prasādam.
Prabhupāda: Hospitality means first of all, he should ask, "What can I offer you?" This is hospitality.
Prabhupāda: Yes, that chemical evolution is part of life demonstration. That I have already explained. Just like the chemical, citric acid, coming from lemon tree, a life. It is coming. So all chemicals are being produced... Just like in your body, in my body, there are so many chemicals. Because the body is there, the chemicals are coming. In my urine you will find so much, so many chemicals. In my stool you will find so many chemicals. Wherefrom the chemicals coming? Daily, enzymes, so many other chemicals are coming. Simply the medical man analyzes the urine, and so many chemicals are there. Wherefrom it came? Because I am living entity, the chemicals are coming in my urine, in my stool, in my cough, in my secretion. It is coming.
1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Haṁsadūta: In Los Angeles, you called it mystic power, that every living creature has some mystic power.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Every living creature.
Trivikrama: You gave the example of a lemon tree.
Prabhupāda: Yes. The mystic power producing tons of citric acid.
Trivikrama: Citric acid.
Prabhupāda: Yes, lemon juice. Acintya-śakti, inconceivable power. The cow, eating grass, producing milk—this is inconceivable power. Can you produce milk from the grass? But how the cow is producing? Hmm? Answer this. You eat grass and produce milk. Give your wife grass and let her produce milk. (break) Your question is answered? Eh?
Prabhupāda: Do you (indistinct) ...the mango trees now? Some of the trees (indistinct), the lemon tree, stunted. In Japan they grow many trees.
Devotee: In Japan they cultivate trees to be like that, very small. They have little orange trees. Orange trees are this big, orange trees.
Prabhupāda: They are also becoming oranges. Japanese enjoy.
Haṁsadūta: The Japanese and Chinese are very, very small.
Prabhupāda: Did it...? (break) ...special. There is a proverb, kalo brāhmaṇa kota śūdra bete mussulman kalki chele busi... (?) A brāhmaṇa, black... Brāhmaṇa's another name is śukla, white. So as soon as a brāhmaṇa is black then he's (indistinct) kalo brāhmaṇa. Kota śūdra, and śūdra, just like African, if they become white there is something mystery. Kalo brāhmaṇa kota śūdra bete mussulman, Mohammedan, because Mohammedan means the Afghans, they are very tall, so a Mussulman is dwarf, a brāhmaṇa is black, the śūdra is white, kalo brāhmaṇa kota śūdra bete mussulman and kalki chelo, that means the bastard and (indistinct) ...these are all of the same class.
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Jayādvaita: It's a little difficult to explain afterwards. Instead of explaining before, that "Can we take," they would take and then explain.
Prabhupāda: Yes, that you have to manage. That is preaching. What you'll do? I have seen that garden. There are lemons, apples; they are rotting and falling down. So while they can be used for Kṛṣṇa's purpose, why don't you give it? (break) ...too hot. At night, of course, it is not hot. They lie down in open place like this on a cot. Very pleasing sleeping.
Mādhavānanda: This is their favorite place.
Prabhupāda: All, they are living in the same tree?
Mādhavānanda: Yes. Seven of them.
Prabhupāda: Yes. I have given that example, already he has mentioned.
Rūpānuga: Pasteur?
Prabhupāda: No, no, this lemon.
Rūpānuga: A lemon tree.
Prabhupāda: A lemon tree is producing chemicals.
Sadāpūta: Some people would say the lemon tree was simply taking food and rearranging it.
Prabhupāda: Yes. But the tree is the source, but everything is there in the earth. But God's creation is so nice that through the tree the chemical is coming. The chemical is there in the earth, but the seed of the lemon tree, when it grows, it extracts the particular type of chemical.
Sadāpūta: We were wondering then if also it could produce matter, instead of taking from the earth and rearranging it.
Prabhupāda: No, earth is the source of everything. Sarva-kāma-dughā mahī, you get from... Actually you are getting all chemicals from the earth.
Rūpānuga: So they are already there.
Prabhupāda: Bring all them. (laughter)
Hari-śauri: He supplies us every day. What's this?
Woman devotee: This is lemon spinach.
Devotee (1): A type of sour spinach.
Bhagavān: Tastes like a lemon.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Very good.
Bhagavān: Anything else hidden in here? This is our apple?
Woman devotee: Sweet peas.
Prabhupāda: We tasted one piece. Yes, little bitter.
Bhagavān: When they work in the fields, we have speakers all over the land, and they hear you chanting all day long.
Prabhupāda: Very good. This should be arranged with lemon juice. If you have got these fruits, there is no need of purchasing.
Bhagavān: The tomatoes are supposed to be as good as oranges. The tomatoes are supposed to be as healthy as oranges.
Prabhupāda: Yes. In our childhood, these tomatoes were called foreign eggplant, bilāti beguna. And because it was foreign, nobody will touch it. In our childhood we'd never eat the tomato. It was rejected by whole Indian Hindu culture.
Prabhupāda: You can give him that paper. Today is very nice report about our activities in the Sunday Chronicle. You can go up to the car. Go up to the car. So, I shall take little khicuḍi at half past one. Khicuḍi as he, as you gave in the first, very thin, but same way. And that lemon chutney.
Maṇihāra: Lemon pickle.
Prabhupāda: Pickle, yes. Khicuḍi with potato and other vegetables, and ghee should be given separately as I... Make it simplified. If I go to rest at two o'clock, then it will be possible to start. So see that it is quickly done. We shall go and come back by half past twelve. In Europe especially, if they do not change their mode of living, reject spiritual life, then gradually the whole situation will be dangerous. Then there will be no water supply.
Prabhupāda: Later on. First of all grow vegetable. Let us eat first of all. Immediately grow vegetables sufficient. And this is good idea, we shall do that, but first of all let us organize the vegetables, fruits. What are these trees?
Mahāṁśa: These are nimbu (lemon) trees which Badrukas have planted and were neglected. They have become very stunted. We dug them out, and we put some cow dung just last, two, three months back. We're going to bring them up, but they will not be very good now. They've already been stunted.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Mahāṁśa: They have been neglected in the beginning, so they have become stunted. So it will help a little by manuring, and some places it has to be grafted and cut off. Some of the trees are good. We get... How many nimbus did we get this year?
Mahāṁśa: They have been neglected in the beginning, so they have become stunted. So it will help a little by manuring, and some places it has to be grafted and cut off. Some of the trees are good. We get... How many nimbus did we get this year?
Prabhupāda: Make nimbu-ācāra (lemon pickle).
Mahāṁśa: Oh yes, we made... Acyutagaja isn't here. One devotee here, he knows how to make it. He made very nice nimbu-ācāra.
Prabhupāda: Simply salt and lemon juice. Cut some pieces into half and soak it in lemon juice and put sufficient salt. In due course it will be very nice, thick. Very digestible. (break) Not yet utilized. So you have to do that. (break)
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Butter? But it has butter, fish.
Gargamuni: No, but they dip in butter. That's how my... They used to serve. My father, he used to take like that. And lemon, lemon juice. Also, Prabhupāda, when I was in Dacca... I think I told you that when I was there they were willing to sign over that land to our society. It's a very nice plot.
Prabhupāda: Gauḍīya Matha. Gauḍīya Matha.
Gargamuni: Yes. Because no one is maintaining, and he has no followers, and, he knows, when he dies then there's nothing. So he was interested. And not only him, but his supporters were also pushing him to sign it over, and they had agreed. But then the war broke out, and I left, and I think a lot of them have been killed who were his main finance backers. He had some lawyers and doctors who were donating, but I think they have all been killed. So now he has no one. So recently some of our men have gone to Dacca for visa to come back, and he's still interested, more so now.
Prabhupāda: He's not killed.
Bhavānanda: We're getting lots of lemons.
Prabhupāda: Hm. What you are doing with them?
Bhavānanda: Nimbu pāni, and all the devotees get piece of lemon with their main meal. We have now... Everyone has gathered. All of the preaching parties have come back, and we've... They're all dispersing again on Friday. So when everyone is there, we have close to 275 residents.
Prabhupāda: Everyone is satisfied.
Bhavānanda: Everyone is satisfied.
Prabhupāda: Anyone.
Prabhupāda: I think in Japan I have got. One European boy came. He came: "How you have got so much knowledge, sir?" His inquiry was that. In Dum Dum Airport some gentleman came, Indian. The thing is, knowledge was there. It was not presented. (pause) (aside:) He'll take one; you take. (break) Hm? Kṛṣṇa asked the gopīs that "You can take your cloth, one after another. You have done a great fault. Naked, you are taking your bath. So just offer to the deity namaskāra." (laughs) Chastised: "You are very naughty. Why you are doing like this? I tell you, this is for your good." So they did it. (pause) Gopījana-vallabha. (pause) Kṛṣṇa's naughty activities... In every neighboring house they would come, Mother Yaśodā, friends, and they'll repeat Kṛṣṇa's naughty activities, and Mother Yaśodā, stopping all household business, she would hear. She would hear again. This is kṛṣṇa-līlā. How ordinary person would understand? "What is this? Spiritual life? A child's naughty activities, and they are hearing, and this is spiritual?" But Kṛṣṇa has made easy salvation, that simply by hearing His naughty activities you'll be liberated. Who will understand this philosophy? Can you give me a little hot water with lemon?
Devotee (1): Hot ginger water?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hot water and lemon.
Prabhupāda: No, lemon. Lime. Lime.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Hot water and lime. Not lemon, lime. That acts like digestive. (break)
Prabhupāda: ...ask the list.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That list is being... Of your book distribution? That's the list? He asked yesterday of a list of books distributed, the list I read.
Prabhupāda: No, no, one list, for whom we want permanent residence, list of...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Er, that Gopāla has to compile.
Prabhupāda: He'll never compile. He does not know.
Devotee (1): We have no limes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Where's Bhakti-caru?
Devotee (1): At the go-down. We have got lemons but no limes. Are lemons all right?
Prabhupāda: What is that lemon?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Lemon means like a light yellow, lemon.
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes, lemon.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Nimbu.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In Ameri... The difference between a lemon and a lime is the lime is green-colored. Lemon is yellow-colored. But I think they act the same way.
Prabhupāda: Lime has a special flavor.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, it does have a special flavor. It's a nice flavor. In drinks people put lime.
Prabhupāda: In Bengal a first eating hot rice with little ghee, salt and this lime flavor, it becomes so palatable, with smashed potato.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Smashed?
Prabhupāda: How to rid?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I remember one thing you were taking to loosen the phlegm in Māyāpur when you had a cough. You were taking a little hot lemon juice in the mornings.
Prabhupāda: You can give me.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I remember that. It seemed to have good effects. It also helped for digestion.
Prabhupāda: So any other?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Actually I'm right in the middle of doing these accounts, so I probably should...
Upendra: But Prabhupāda hasn't got any taste.
Prabhupāda: Liking... (Bengali)
Doctor: Does he like lemon?
Dr. Kapoor: Lemon, can you take lemon?
Prabhupāda: Yes. (Hindi between Kapoor and doctor)
Doctor: That you add one lemon with it.
Upendra: In the fruit juice.
Doctor: In the fruit juice. Lemon will improve appetite.
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: This is sweet lemon.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: It is sweet lemon. The juice is very sweet.
Prabhupāda: Now give me.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: These are plums. They could be skinned and the drink is very good for you, soft.
Upendra: Juice comes from them?
Prabhupāda: So I am trying to drink a little fruit juice.
Bhakti-caru: Prabhupāda wanted to drink some of this sweet lemon juice.
Prabhupāda: What do you think?
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Maybe your sister can suggest some good drink.
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali)
Prabhupāda: (Bengali)
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali)
Prabhupāda: Little, that sweet juice.
Bhakti-caru: What Ātreya Ṛṣi Prabhu brought.
Prabhupāda: What is that?
Bhakti-caru: The sweet lemon. I'll just get it, yes.
Prabhupāda: Hm? What is that?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I'm suggesting that it should be sweet.
Prabhupāda: That is sweet, that sweet...
Ātreya Ṛṣi: It's very sweet. It's very, very sweet.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Sweet is nice.
Prabhupāda: So keep it. When I require, give me little.
Prabhupāda: No, no.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: It has to be made very fresh.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh. Ātreya Ṛṣi says it should be made fresh.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That lemon should be preserved, not otherwise.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Utilized. Okay. Keep the lemon. Don't use it for anything else. That's what you have to tell him. Preserve it only for this purpose. That was a very funny joke you told, Śrīla Prabhupāda, about the doctor, con-doctor? Everybody was relishing it.
Prabhupāda: Where is Kīrtanānanda? He is annoyed (avoiding?)? (Tamāla Kṛṣṇa laughs)
Prabhupāda: No. That much, warm(?) glucose. That much, and nothing more possible. You don't increase. And decrease. Little in that ladle(?). That's all. And preserve those sweet lemon.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Preserve those sweet lemons. Prabhupāda wants sometimes sweet lemons for drinking, so you should preserve.
Prabhupāda: And chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Kīrtanānanda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Should we have some chanting now, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Yes, chanting twenty-four hours.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, but we... I also say that as your sister Pisimā is here, whenever you like, she may cook something and you take. And take Yamunā jala, little sweet lemon juice. I mean take things also.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: As you are doing. Not fast. No... You shouldn't artificially fast or stop eating.
Prabhupāda: No, no. That is suicidal.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Right. We don't want suicide.
Prabhupāda: So, when you are beginning?
Pradyumna: Right now.
Prabhupāda: Do it. Śubha-suśīghram.(?) Upendra, you keep honey ready...
Upendra: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: ...whenever I shall require. (end)
Prabhupāda: I have trying to pass urine.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Have you tried? You feel like it now? You want to try? I'll fix up the bottle. Okay. (break) (kīrtana) Yes, Prabhupāda? It's Tamāla Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: That sweet lemon juice.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You want some? Okay. (aside:) Tell Bhakti-caru. It's coming in one second, Śrīla Prabhupāda. (break)
Prabhupāda: Very good.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He liked that, those lemons, sweet lemons. Here's Bhakti-caru.
Bhakti-caru: Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Hm. Today I like to take ḍāl-ruṭi.
Prabhupāda: So what I am drinking now?
Hari-śauri: This sweet lime juice. He also thought that might be a little strong, because it's citrus, because actually the urine is still cloudy, and that did not occur until you began to drink this orange and sweet lime. The first night when the blood was there, that day you had drunk two glasses of sweet lemon and one glass of orange. Just like pomegranate juice, this is very good because it's not citrus. Is the sweet lemon juice giving some strength?
Prabhupāda: I don't think so.
Hari-śauri: Just it gives a little taste, though. But that is also important. How did you like the pomegranate juice?
Prabhupāda: Good.
Prabhupāda: That other fruit?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Sweet lemons? Do you find that you have a good result with drinking that kind of juice at night? You don't have any reaction in any way? Causing mucus or something? It's okay?
Devotee: We could make an ice cream shake.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So Upendra will make it? All of the devotees are very excited about your travel plans, Śrīla Prabhupāda. (laughter) Maybe Bhagatji will come also.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (laughter) He likes the Māyāpur.
Prabhupāda: So everything is going nice?
Dayānanda: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda. I brought you some fruits. Ātreya Ṛṣi told me to bring you some oranges and some lemons.
Prabhupāda: Oh, you are all so kind. How is your family?
Dayānanda: Very nice, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: So...
Dayānanda: It's very encouraging to hear that you're...
Prabhupāda: Restaurant.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, nothing came.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: The fruit came. It was the pomegranate and lemon.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Dayānanda brought it.
Bhavānanda: No, before then. The fruit came.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: And the letter wished you good health by the royal family.
Prabhupāda: No, preaching also, it is going on. I know that. Where is the cotton sweater?
Pañca-draviḍa: We brought one sweater from Peru, Śrīla Prabhupāda. (break) (loud kīrtana)
Correspondence
1973 Correspondence
Yes, your article is very nice. It is very important that we now expose the nonsense theories of these rascal scientists who assert that life comes from matter. They say that life comes from some chemicals, but they cannot say wherefrom these chemicals have come. Actually, if we examine carefully, chemicals are coming from life, not life from chemicals. Just like the lemon tree. It is producing so many lemons. In each lemon there is so much citric acid. So, due to the presence of life, so many chemicals are being produced. Also, I have experienced, that one of my toenails has come off due to infection, but now my body is replacing that nail with another one of the exact size and shape as the one I have lost. If I have got such a potency to create, then what to speak of the Supreme Living Being lord Sri Krsna. If the sub-living entities can produce so much chemicals then what to speak of the Supreme living entity. This is called inconceivable potency.
| Page Title: | Lemon |
| Compiler: | Visnu Murti, RupaManjari |
| Created: | 09 of Jun, 2012 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=1, CC=4, OB=0, Lec=5, Con=33, Let=1 |
| No. of Quotes: | 44 |