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The Cause of All Causes
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the potential creation by the glaring effulgence of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Brahmājī has separately also given this statement in the  saṁhitā  known as the  Brahma-saṁhitā , and he says there:
yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi- koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi aśeṣa-bhūtam tad-brahma niṣkalam anantam aśesa bhūtam govindam ādi puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
“I serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead Govinda, the primeval Lord whose effulgence of His transcendental body, known as the  brahmajyoti , unlimited, unfathomed and all-pervasive, is the cause of the creation of unlimited numbers of planets, etc., with varieties of climates and specific conditions of life.”
The same statement is in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 14.27). Lord Kṛṣṇa is the background of the  brahmajyoti  ( brahmaṇe hi pratiṣṭhāham ). In the  Nirukti , or Vedic dictionary, the import of  pratiṣṭhā  is mentioned as that which establishes. So the  brahmajyoti  is not independent or self-sufficient. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is ultimately the creator of the  brahmajyoti , mentioned in this verse as  sva-rociṣā , or the effulgence of the transcendental body of the Lord. This  brahmajyoti  is all-pervading, and all creation is made possible by its potential power; therefore the Vedic hymns declare that everything that exists is being sustained by the  brahmajyoti  ( sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma ). Therefore the potential seed of all creation is the  brahmajyoti , and the same  brahmajyoti , unlimited and unfathomed, is established by the Lord. Therefore the Lord (Śrī Kṛṣṇa) is ultimately the supreme cause of all creation ( ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ ).
One should not expect the Lord to create like the blacksmith with a hammer and other instruments. The Lord creates by His potencies. He has His multifarious potencies ( parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate ). Just as the small seed of a banyan fruit has the potency to create a big banyan tree, similarly the Lord disseminates all varieties of seeds by His potential  brahmajyoti  ( sva-rociṣā ), and the seeds are made to develop by the watering process of persons like Brahmā. Brahmā cannot create the seeds, but he can manifest the seed into a tree, just as a gardener helps the plants and orchards to grow by the watering process. The example cited here of the sun is very appropriate. In the material world the sun is the cause of all illumination: fire, electricity, the rays of the moon, etc. All luminaries in the sky are creations of the sun, the sun is the creation of the  brahmajyoti , and the  brahmajyoti  is the effulgence of the Lord. Thus the ultimate cause of creation is the Lord.