According to the Bhagvad Gita the world was produced by Krishna from his own prakriti (nature). Krishna says: “All things exist in me. Supported by my material exigency, I cause this entire system of existing things to emanate again, without any power of their own, by the power of their material essence, when a devotee recognizes the individual essence of everything to be comprehended in one and to be the only emanation of it, he then attains to the supreme spirit. Earth, water, fire, wind, ether, heart, 36 intellect, and egoism into there eight components is my nature divided. The nature is an inferior one: but learn my superior nature other than this, of a vital kind, by means of which this universe is sustained. Understand that all things are produced from this latter, or higher, nature.”
(a) (i) How did Lord Krishna create this world?
(ii) Who says this statement, “All things exist in me?”
(iii) Write the eight divine components of Krishna’s nature.
(iv) When does a devotee recognize the individual essence?
(v) How is this universe sustained?”
(b) Make nouns of the following verbs:
(i) Produce
(ii)Emanate
(iii) exist
(iv) recognize
(v)comprehend
(vi) attain.
