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TEXT 4 maya tatam idam sarvam
SYNONYMS  maya--by
Me; tatam--spread; idam--all these manifestations; sarvam--all;
jagat--cosmic
manifestation; avyakta-murtina--unmanifested form; mat-sthani--unto
Me; sarva-bhutani--all living entities;
na--not; ca--also;
aham--I; tesu--in them;
avasthitah--situated.
TRANSLATION By Me, in
My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are
in Me, but I am not in them.
PURPORT The Supreme
Personality of Godhead is not perceivable through the gross material senses.
It is said that Lord Sri Krsna's name, fame, pastimes, etc., cannot be
understood by material senses. Only to one who is engaged in pure devotional
service under proper guidance is He revealed. In the Brahma-samhita
it is stated, premanjanacchurita.... one can see the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, Govinda, always within himself and outside himself if he has
developed the transcendental loving attitude towards Him. Thus for people
in general He is not visible. Here it is said that although He is all-pervading,
everywhere present, He is yet not conceivable by the material senses. But
actually, although we cannot see Him, everything is resting in Him. As
we have discussed in the Seventh Chapter, the entire material cosmic manifestation
is only a combination of His two different energies, the superior spiritual
energy and the inferior material energy. Just as the sunshine is spread
all over the universe, the energy of the Lord is spread all over the creation,
and everything is resting in that energy.
Yet one
should not conclude that because He is spread all over He has lost His
personal existence. To refute such an argument the Lord says, "I am everywhere,
and everything is in Me, but still I am aloof." For example, a king heads
a government which is but the manifestation of the king's energy; the different
governmental departments are nothing but the energies of the king, and
each department is resting on the king's power. But still one cannot expect
the king to be present in every department personally. That is a crude
example. Similarly, all the manifestations that we see, and everything
that exists both in this material world and in the spiritual world, are
resting on the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The creation
takes place by the diffusion of His different energies, and, as is stated
in the Bhagavad-gita, He is everywhere present by His personal representation,
the diffusion of His different energies.
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