Bali-mardana: They say the water is from the ground. By the roots, it is drawn up to the dob.
Prabhupāda: I understand that. But the chemical is being supplied from the root?
Bali-mardana: Yes. Just like when there is no water they say the tree will die.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Bali-mardana: When there is no rain, the plant life cannot live. So they say that the water is drawn from the root to nourish the plant. (break)
Prabhupāda: ...water is drawn, then the question will be how the water is drawn?
Bali-mardana: Well, each tree has a system of, er, system of like tubes through which the water is drawn up.
Prabhupāda: Then as soon as there is system, system is done by somebody.
Bali-mardana: Hm.
Satsvarūpa: Nature, they say.
Bali-mardana: Nature, mother nature.
Prabhupāda: Yes, then mother nature why does not allow you to draw water from the ground? Then mother nature has got sense.
Sudāmā: Why mother nature doesn't let us draw water?
Prabhupāda: Yes, we cannot draw water.
Bali-mardana: But from the well we can draw water.
Sudāmā: We can find water.
Prabhupāda: No, no.
Satsvarūpa: In the mouth we have to drink it.
Prabhupāda: Not like the tree. Trees are called padapa. Padapa means it draws water from the leg. But why you cannot draw water from the leg, by the leg? Why you draw water by the hand?
Satsvarūpa: Because it's nature's arrangement.
Prabhupāda: That means nature has got sense.
Satsvarūpa: They say that nature has simply the desire to see that the species is propagated.
Prabhupāda: Anyway, when you see nature has arranged like that, just try to understand that the tree is made to draw water from the legs, but you cannot do. You have to draw water from the hand. Why different? As there is discrimination, there is sense. You should... It is nature's, I mean to say, order that, or arrangement that "You shall draw water from the hand, and the tree shall draw from the leg." So as there is different arrangement, there is discretion, why I am allowed to draw water by the hand and the tree is allowed to draw water from the leg.
Bali-mardana: They say that evolution.
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, there is discretion. As soon as you say evolution, then evolution means there is also some arrangement that "You shall act like this, and he shall act like this."