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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
its dissolution, everything is but a different manifestation of My energy. And because the energy is not separate from Me, it is to be concluded that I am existing in everything.
“In the same way, the body of a living being is nothing but a composition of the five elements, and the living entity embodied in the material condition is also part and parcel of Me. The living entity is imprisoned in the material condition on account of his false conception of himself as the supreme enjoyer. This false ego of the living entity is the cause of his imprisonment in material existence. As the Supreme Absolute Truth, I am transcendental to the living entity, as well as to his material embodiment. The two energies, material and spiritual, are both acting under My supreme control. My dear  gopīs , I request that instead of being so afflicted, you try to accept everything with a philosophical attitude. Then you will understand that you are always with Me and that there is no cause of lamentation in our being separated from one another.”
This important instruction of Lord Krṣṇa’s to the  gopīs  can be utilized by all devotees engaged in Krṣṇa consciousness. The whole philosophy is considered on the basis of inconceivable, simultaneous oneness and difference. In  Bhagavad-gītā  the Lord says that He is present everywhere in His impersonal feature. Everything is existing in Him, but still He is not personally present everywhere. The cosmic manifestation is nothing but a display of Krṣṇa’s energy, and because the energy is not different from the energetic, nothing is different from Krṣṇa. When this absolute consciousness, Krṣṇa consciousness, is absent, we are separated from Krṣṇa; but fortunately, if this Krṣṇa consciousness is present, then we are not separated from Krṣṇa. The process of devotional service is the revival of Krṣṇa consciousness, and if the devotee is fortunate enough to understand that the material energy is not separated from Krṣṇa, then he can utilize the material energy and its products in the service of the Lord. But in the absence of Krṣṇa consciousness, the forgetful living entity, although part and parcel of Krṣṇa, falsely puts himself in the position of enjoyer of the material world and, being thus implicated in material entanglement, is forced by the material energy to continue his material existence. This is also confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā . Although a living entity is forced to act by the material energy, he falsely thinks that he is the all-in-all and the supreme enjoyer.
If the devotee knows perfectly that the  arcā-vigraha , or Deity form of Lord Krṣṇa in the temple, is exactly the same  sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha  as Krṣṇa Himself, then his service to the temple Deity becomes direct service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, the temple itself, the