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The Cause of All Causes
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however, as mentioned in the Vedic literatures, that it is created at certain intervals and is again annihilated by the will of the Lord. The whole material or even the spiritual creation is a manifestation of the energy of the Lord, just as the light and heat of a fire are different manifestations of the fire's energy. The Lord therefore exists in His impersonal form by such expansion of energy, and the complete creation rests on His impersonal feature. Nonetheless He keeps Himself distinct from such creation as the  pūrṇam  (or complete), so no one should wrongly think that His personal feature is not existent due to His impersonal unlimited expansions. The impersonal expansion is a manifestation of His energy, and He is always in His personal feature despite His innumerable unlimited expansions of impersonal energies (Bg. 9.5-7). For human intelligence it is very difficult to conceive how the whole creation rests on His expansion of energy, but the Lord has given a very good example in the  Bhagavad-gītā . It is said that although the air and the atoms rest within the huge expansion of the sky, like the resting reservoir of everything materially created, still the sky remains separately without being affected. Similarly the Supreme Lord, although He maintains everything created by His expansion of energy, always remains separate, which is accepted even by Śaṅkarācārya, the great advocate of the impersonal form of the Absolute. He says  nārāyaṇaḥ paro 'vyaktāt , or  Nārāyaṇa  exists separately, apart from the impersonal creative energy. The whole creation thus merges within the body of transcendental  Nārāyaṇa  at the time of annihilation, and the creation emanates from His body again with the same unchanging categories of fate and individual nature. The individual living entities, being parts and parcels of the Lord, are sometimes described as  ātmā , qualitatively one in spiritual constitution. But because such living entities are apt to be attracted to the material creation, actively and subjectively, they are therefore different from the Lord.
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कालाद् गुणव्यतिकरः परिणामः स्वभावतः । कर्मणो जन्म महतः पुरुषाधिष्ठितादभूत् ॥२२॥
kālād guṇa-vyatikaraḥ parṇāmaḥ sva-bhāvataḥ karmaṇo janma mahataḥ puruṣādhiṣṭhitād abhūt