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Krishna is the intelligence of the intelligent

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TRANSLATION

O son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the prowess of all powerful men.

PURPORT

Bījam means seed; Kṛṣṇa is the seed of everything. In contact with material nature, the seed fructifies into various living entities, movable and inert. Birds, beasts, men and many other living creatures are moving living entities; trees and plants, however, are inert-they cannot move, but only stand. Every entity is contained within the scope of 8,400,000 species of life; some of them are moving and some of them are inert. In all cases, however, the seed of their life is Kṛṣṇa. As stated in Vedic literature, Brahman, or the Supreme Absolute Truth, is that from which everything is emanating. Kṛṣṇa is Parabrahman, the Supreme Spirit. Brahman is impersonal and Parabrahman is personal. Impersonal Brahman is situated in the personal aspect-that is stated in Bhagavad-gītā. Therefore, originally, Kṛṣṇa is the source of everything. He is the root. As the root of a tree maintains the whole tree, Kṛṣṇa, being the original root of all things, maintains everything in this material manifestation. This is also confirmed in the Vedic literature. Yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante. "The Supreme Absolute Truth is that from which everything is born." He is the prime eternal among all eternals. He is the supreme living entity of all living entities, and He alone is maintaining all life. Kṛṣṇa also says that He is the root of all intelligence. Unless a person is intelligent he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa.

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Everyday I meet so many intelligent people yet few admit to a Supreme Intelligence that pervades all of life. Take an atheist architech for example. He has gained much knowledge in the design of large structures like skyscraper buildings.

 

There is no way anyone could convince him that one of his designed buildings just poped up one day with no intelligence guiding his well designed building. He will be quick to tell us that he is the designer never acknowledging that the intelligence he has gained came from another.

 

This same person will also deny that in the formation of a skyscraper tree like a redwood tree that has been growing for 300 years or more there can't be a designer. "It just evolved that way."

 

But the devotee sees that all intelligence comes from Krsna. The devotee is non-envious towards the atheists with some worldly intelligence or ability because he sees that even their intelligence or ability has come from Krsna and is therefore one of Krsna's energies and as such represents or reminds the devotee of the Lord.

 

The devotee has gained the supreme intelligent position of having his intelligence totally fixed (steadied) on Krsna.

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For one who is so situated in the Divine consciousness, the threefold miseries of material existence exist no longer; in such a happy state, one's intelligence soon becomes steady. _Gita 2.65

Divine consciousness includes Krishna's presence within the so-called material everyday world of our sensual experience.

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