Syamasundara dasa: Leibnitz sees in nature a combination of forces or activities at work. According to the law of motion, there is an uninterrupted series of regularly progressive changes in a body as it moves. If a ball rolls along the floor, it goes progressively, without gaps or sudden changes.
Srila Prabhupada: I explained that. The complete motion is part of the same process. However, the ball has no power to move of itself. If you push it in one way, it will roll slowly, and if you push it in another way, it will roll quickly. All these wonderful processes are happening in material nature due to the will of the Supreme. The process takes place automatically, but it is initially pushed by God, who created this material nature. In the beginning, material nature was unmanifest. Gradually, the three qualities or modes came into being, and by the interaction of the modes, many manifestations arose. First there was space, then sky, then sound, one after another. Krsna's push is so perfect that everything comes into being automatically in perfect order. Foolish people think that everything comes about automatically without an initial push, without a background. Therefore they think there is no God. This cosmic manifestation has not come about automatically. Krsna is the creator, and He gives nature its original purpose. A potter may make a clay pot on a wheel, but the wheel is not the original cause of the pot. It is the potter who gives force to the wheel. Foolish people think that the wheel moves automatically, but behind the wheel's movement there is the potter who gives it force. There is no question of nature creating independently. Everything results from God, Krsna.
As soon as you speak of a process, you imply that everything is linked together, that one event follows another. That is nature's way. The first creation is the mahat-tattva, the sum total of material energy. Then there is an interaction of the three gunas, qualities, and then there is mind, ego, and intelligence. In this way, creation takes place. This is explained in the Second Canto ofSrimad-Bhagavatam. The Supreme Lord impregnates matter, prakrti, by glancing at her. In the material world, one has to impregnate by the sexual process, but in the Vedas it is stated that Krsna impregnated the total material energy simply by His glance. This is due to His omnipotence. When Krsna throws His glance toward material nature, material nature is immediately activated, and events begin to happen. So the original cause of the creation is Krsna's glance. Materialists cannot understand how Krsna can set material nature into motion just by glancing at it, but that is due to their material conception.
(Dialectic Spiritualism - A Vedic View of Western Philosophy - By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
http://prabhupadabooks.com/pdf/Dialectic_Spiritualism-A_Vedic_View_on_Western_Philosophy.pdf
http://dialecticspiritualism.com/gottfried-von-leibniz/
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