Suppose you enter in a very beautiful garden ...lecture The Nectar of Devotion -- Vṛndāvana, October 17, 1972

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

"Suppose you enter in a very beautiful garden, very nicely trees, [indistinct] so many nice flowers, building. Everything is, they are nice. The proprietor of the garden takes you to show you. And if you say, "Oh, it is all mithyā," then how much depressed he becomes, just see. "I brought this friend to show the beauty of this garden, and he says it is mithyā." Similarly, we won't want to depress Kṛṣṇa. [laughter] That is not our business. Kṛṣṇa has created this nice world. Everything is very nice. The sun is rising just in exact time. It is setting in exact time. The moon is rising. The seasons are changing. And we are getting nice food, nice fruit, nice flowers. So we are not so de..., I mean to say, depressing agent. We won't discourage Kṛṣṇa. Why? Kṛṣṇa has created this nice world. How can I say it is mithyā? It is the by-product of Kṛṣṇa's energy. So Kṛṣṇa's energy cannot be false. It is eternal. Kṛṣṇa is eternal. Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that this material world, bhūmir āpo analo vāyuḥ khaṁ buddhir mana eva ca, bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā [Bg. 7.4]. "These are eight kinds of separated energy of Me, Kṛṣṇa." So Kṛṣṇa's energy... Kṛṣṇa is truth. So Kṛṣṇa's energy is also truth.
lecture The Nectar of Devotion -- Vṛndāvana, October 17, 1972

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  Tamohara Dasa I am astounded at the deep beauty and personalism shown to us by Srila Prabhupada here. We don't want to discourage Krishna. just see SP's love for Krishna, he will accept it, to me, like a father accepts his creative son's imperfect artwork .