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Prabhupāda:

buddhir jñānam asammohaḥ kṣamā satyaṁ damaḥ śamaḥ sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ bhavo 'bhāvo bhayaṁ cābhayam eva ca

[Bg. 10.4]

[Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, self-control and calmness, pleasure and pain, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, nonviolence, …

So we have to understand these qualifications. Intelligence. Buddhiḥ means intelligence. Jñānam means knowledge. Asammohaḥ means freedom from illusion. Kṣamā. …

Abhāva. Abhāva means death. Bhayam, fear, and abhayam, fearlessness. Ahiṁsā, nonviolence; samatā, equality; tuṣṭiḥ, satisfaction; tapaḥ, penance; dānam, charity; yaśaḥ, …

Because Kṛṣṇa has declared already, aham ādir hi devānām, maharṣīṇāṁ ca sarvasya [Bg. 10.2].

[Neither the hosts of demigods nor the great sages know My origin, for, in every respect, I am the source …

He is the original cause of everything. Now... Then He must be the cause of all good qualification and bad …

Take for example buddhi. Buddhi means intelligence. And what is that intelligence? Real intelligence? Real intelligence is to know, to …

That is material intelligence for earning our bread. Real intelligence is sukhārtha, the finer sentiments to understand the finer activities …

Just like a child. A child sees that a nice motorcar runs in the street, he thinks that the motorcar …

Grossly seeing, that is not intelligence. Oh, man is working; man is living; man is writing books, oh, wonderfully. He …

Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Sir P. C. Raya and so many scientists all over the world, they …

The scientist is working, the philosopher is working, not out of his own accord; it is working under the spell …

prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate

[Bg. 3.27]

[The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer …

Prakṛti... By nature's law he's working. Why not everybody scientist? Why not everybody? If it is accidental and it is …

[This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and it is producing all moving and unmoving …