Bhagavad Gita 15.13

gām āviśya ca bhūtāni

dhārayāmy aham ojasā

puṣṇāmi cauṣadhīḥ sarvāḥ

somo bhūtvā rasātmakaḥ

 

Entering earth, I hold all fast,

Sustaining life from first to last;

Becoming moon with nourishing ray,

I feed all plants that grow each day.

 

My dear Lord, wondrous indeed are the mechanisms by which life is sustained in this world, ranging from those by which the earth floats in space to those by which vegetables provide nutrition. And you have blessed me with the twin gifts of an inner intelligence capable of curiosity and an outer world filled with many mysteries and marvels that gloriously stimulate that curiosity.

O supreme illuminator, it is you who have blessed us humans so that we can unravel the magical workings of nature that holds us within its lap. Modern science is a gift arising from the union between our human curiosity and your divine creativity. Many of the wonders explained by science still remain wonders, because even if I understand how they work, the question of why they work—and indeed why they exist at all—remains intriguingly unanswered.

O supreme guide, as the life-sustaining wonders become more and more conceivable, grant me the open mind so that I remain curious about how they may still be explained more deeply, more differently, and ultimately more divinely. Lead me beyond my head to my heart, where I learn to see and seek and savor your love as the ultimate miraculous reality, as the basis of both the why and the how for all the world’s wonders.

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15.13 I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit. I become the moon and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables.