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tial energy in the shape of the universal form, which includes everything manifested in different varieties of organic and inorganic materials. Manifested varieties of the universe are therefore not different from the Lord, just as golden ornaments of different shapes and forms are non-different from the original stock reserve of gold. In other words, the Lord is the Supreme Person who controls everything that is within the creation, and still He remains the supreme separate identity, distinct from all manifested material creation. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 9.4-5) He is therefore said to be Yogeśvara. Everything rests on the potency of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and still the Lord is different from and transcendental to all such identities. In the Vedic  Puruṣa-sūkta  of the  Rk-mantra , this is also confirmed. This philosophical truth of simultaneous oneness and difference was propounded by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and it is known as  acintya-bhedābheda-tattva . Brahmā, Nārada and all others are simultaneously one with the Lord and different from the Supreme Lord. We are all one with Him, just as the gold ornaments are one in quality with the stock gold, but the individual gold ornament is never equal in quantity with the stock gold. The stock gold is never exhausted even if there are innumerable ornaments emanating from the stock because the stock is  pūrṇam , complete, and even if  pūrṇam  is deducted from the  pūrṇam , still the supreme  pūrṇam  remains the same  pūrṇam . This fact is inconceivable to our present imperfect senses. Lord Caitanya therefore defined His theory of philosophy as  acintya  (inconceivable), and as confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as well as in the  Bhāgavatam , Lord Caitanya's theory of  acintya-bhedābheda-tattva  is the perfect philosophy of the Absolute Truth.
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स्वधिष्ण्यं प्रतपन् प्राणो बहिश्च प्रतपत्यसौ । एवं विराजं प्रतपंस्तपत्यन्तर्बहिः पुमान् ॥१७॥
svadhiṣṇyam pratapan prāṇo bahiś ca pratapaty asau evam virājam pratapams tapaty antar bahiḥ pumān
svadhiṣṇyam—radiation; pratapan—by expansion; prāṇaḥ—living energy; bahiḥ—external; ca—also; pratapati—illuminated; asau—the sun; evam—in