SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 7 Text 6
etad-yonini bhutani
sarvanity upadharaya
aham krtsnas ya jagatah
prabhavah pralayas tatha

etat--these two natures; yonini--whose source of birth; bhuta-ni--everythin g created; sarvani--all; iti--thus; upadharaya-- know; aham--I; krtsnasya--all- inclusive; jagatah--of the world; prabhavah--the source of manifestation; pralayah--annihilat ion; tatha--as well as.

TRANSLATION

All created beings have their source in these two natures. Of all that is material and all that is spiritual in this world, know for certain that I am both the origin and the dissolution.

JOURNAL:

I like to play music. When I was younger I would write my own songs. The other day I was listening to a tape of these and realized I could "hear" my own spiritual development through them. I started to have the idea that I did not create these songs, only reflected the energy that was working in my life at the time.

Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport; ...spirit and matter, which combine to manifest this gigantic universal form, are originally two energies of the Lord, and consequently the Lord is the original cause of everything. A fragmental part and parcel of the Lord, namely the living entity, may be the cause of a big skyscraper, a big factory, or even a big city, but he cannot be the cause of a big universe. The cause of the big universe is the big soul, or the Supersoul. And Krsna, the Supreme, is the cause of both the big and small souls. Therefore He is the original cause of all causes.

Once again Srila Prabhupada confirms a fact that, without his words, would have only been a feeling for me. Ki Jaya Srila Prabhupada!