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The Cause of All Causes
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the resultant action, the living being, are all produced by the external and internal energies of Lord Kṛṣṇa. This is confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 7.4-5). The ingredients, namely earth, water, fire, air, sky, as well as the conception of material identity, intelligence, and the mind, are produced of the external energy of the Lord. The living entity who enjoys the interaction of the above gross and subtle ingredients, as set up by the eternal time, is the offshoot of internal potency, with freedom either to remain in the material world or in the spiritual world. In the material world the living entity is enticed by deluding nescience, but in the spiritual world he is in the normal condition of spiritual existence without any delusion. The living entity is known as the marginal potency of the Lord. But in all circumstances, neither the material ingredients nor the spiritual parts and parcels are independent from the Personality of Godhead Vāsudeva because all things, either products of the external, internal, or marginal potencies of the Lord, are simply displays of the same effulgence of the Lord, just as light, heat and smoke are displays of fire. None of them are separate from the fire—all of them combine together to be called fire; similarly, all phenomenal manifestations, as well as the effulgence of the body of Vāsudeva, are His impersonal features, whereas He eternally exists in His transcendental form called  sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ , distinct from all conceptions of the material ingredients mentioned above.
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नारायणपरा वेदा देवा नारायणाङ्गजाः । नारायणपरा लोका नारायणपरा मत्वाः ॥१५॥
nārāyaṇa-parā vedā devā nārāyaṇāṅga-jāḥ nārāyaṇa-parā lokā nārāyaṇa-parā makhāḥ
nārāyaṇa —the Supreme Lord;  parāḥ —is the cause and is meant for;  vedāḥ —knowledge;  devāḥ —the demigods;  nārāyaṇa —the Supreme Lord;  aṅga-jāḥ —assisting hands;  nārāyaṇa —the Personality of Godhead;  parāḥ —for the sake of;  lokāḥ —the planets;  nārāyaṇa —the Supreme Lord;  parāḥ —just please Him;  makhāḥ —all sacrifices.