“The Supreme Artist”

No matter how they may try, fine artists never capture the beauty and symmetry of a flower. They merely copy and try to give viewers an impression of the real thing. At any art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand in 1972, Srila Prabhupada said this: “You are painting one picture, one flower, very nice flower. You have to take your brush, the color and the plate, so many things, and you are taxing your brain, how to make it beautiful. But you see one rose flower in the garden. Not only one rose flower, many millions of rose flowers, they are coming out very artistically painted. But when we ask, the answer is that “It is nature.” But if we go deep into the matter, what is this nature? Nature means a working instrument, that’s all, an energy. That is nature. There is energy or sakti, energy, power. There is power. Without power, how the rose flower is coming to beautiful shape from the bud? There is power. That power is Krsna’s power. But that is so subtle and working so nicely that overnight we see that a beautiful flower has come out. But there is working, there is brain. But they are working so swiftly and subtly, we cannot see how it is being worked. Just like when you paint one picture, I can see, everyone can see that you are working. But this painting or this working of the actual rose flower that is also being worked out by several energies. Don’t think that is has coming out automatically. No. Nothing comes out automatically. It is coming out of the energy of the Supreme Lord, but the energies are so subtle, nice and artistic that all of a sudden you see a nice flower.”