Knowledge of Krṣṇa's Energies
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“This factory was started by me,” in no case should it be concluded that I am lost or in any way not present. Although a manufacturer may refer to his products as being “manufactured by me,” it does not mean that he personally created or constructed his product, but that the product was produced by his energy. Similarly, if Krṣṇa says, “Whatever you see in the world was created by Me,” we are not to suppose that He is no longer existing.
It is not very difficult to see God everywhere in the creation, for He is everywhere present. Just as in the Ford factory the workers see Mr. Ford in every corner, those who are conversant with the science of Krṣṇa can see Him in every atom of the creation. Everything is resting on Krṣṇa ( mat-sthāni sarva bhūtāni ), but Krṣṇa is not there ( na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ ). Krṣṇa and His energy are non-different, yet the energy is not Krṣṇa. The sun and the sunshine are not different, but the sunshine is not the sun. The sunshine may come through our window and enter our room, but this is not to say that the sun is in our room. The  Viṣṇu Purāṇa  states:  parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktiḥ :  parasya  means supreme,  brahmaṇaḥ  means Absolute Truth, and  śaktiḥ  means energy. The energy of the Supreme Absolute is everything, but in that energy Krṣṇa is not to be found.
There are two kinds of energy—material and spiritual.  Jīvas , or individual souls, belong to the superior energy of Krṣṇa, but because they are prone to be attracted to the material energy, they are called marginal energy. But actually there are only two energies. All of the planetary systems and universes are resting on the energies of Krṣṇa. Just as all the