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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 13]
TEXT 48
तदिदं यगवान् राजन्नेक यत्स्माऽऽस्यनां खण्डक । अन्वरोऽनन्तरो माति पश्य तं माययोरुधा ॥४८॥
tad idam bhagavān rājann eka ātmātmanām svadṛk- antaro'nantaro bhāti paśya tam māyayorudhā
tat —therefore;  idam —this manifestation;  bhagavān —the Personality of Godhead;  rājan —O King;  ekaḥ —one without a second;  ātmā —the Supersoul;  ātmanām —by His energies;  svadṛk —qualitatively like Him;  antaraḥ —without;  anantaraḥ —within and by Himself;  bhāti —so manifests;  paśya —look;  tam —unto Him only;  māyayā —by manifestations of different energies;  urudhā —appears to be many.
TRANSLATION
Therefore, O King, you should look to the Supreme Lord only, who is one without a second and who manifests Himself by different energies and is both within and without.
PURPORT
The Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is one without a second, but He manifests Himself by different energies because He is by nature blissful. The living beings are also manifestations of His marginal energy, qualitatively one with the Lord, and there are innumerable living beings both within and without the external and internal energies of the Lord. Since the spiritual world is a manifestation of the Lord's internal energy, the living beings within that internal potency are qualitatively one with the Lord without contamination from the external potency. Although qualitatively one with the Lord, the living being, due to contamination of the material world, is pervertedly manifested, and therefore he experiences so-called happiness and distress in the material world. Such experiences are all ephemeral and do not affect the spirit soul. The perception of such ephemeral happiness and distress is due only to the forgetfulness of his qualities, which are equal to the Lord's. There is, however, a regular current by which to rectify the fallen condition of the living being by the Lord Himself from within and without. From within He corrects the desiring living being as localized Paramātmā, and from without He corrects by His manifestations, the spiritual master and the revealed scriptures. One should look unto the Lord; one should not be disturbed by the so-called