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Creation of the Universal Form
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number of living entities, and in Him rests the aggregate creation, which thus flourishes.
PURPORT
The Supreme Lord expands Himself in two ways, by personal plenary expansions and separated minute expansions. The personal plenary expansions are Viṣṇu-tattvas, and the separated expansions are living entities. Since the living entities are very small, they are sometimes described as the marginal energy of the Lord. But the mystic  yogīs  consider the living entities and the Supersoul, Paramātmā, to be one and the same. It is, however, a minor point of controversy; after all, everything created rests on the gigantic  virāṭa  or universal form of the Lord.
TEXT 9
साध्यात्मः साधिदैवश्च साधिभूत इति त्रिधा । विराट् प्राणो दशविध एकधा हृदयेन च ॥ ९ ॥
sādhyātmaḥ sādhidaivaś ca   sādhibhūta iti tridhā   virāṭ prāṇo daśa-vidha   ekadhā hṛdayena ca
sa-ādhyātmaḥ —the body and mind with all the senses;  sa-ādhidaivaḥ —and the controlling demigods of the senses;  sa-ādhibhūtaḥ —the present objectives;  iti —thus;  tridhā —three;  virāṭ —gigantic;  prāṇaḥ —moving force;  daśa-vidhaḥ —ten kinds;  ekadhā —one only;  hṛdayena —living energy;  ca —also.
TRANSLATION
The gigantic universal form is represented by three, ten and one in the sense that He is the body and the mind and senses, He is the dynamic force for all movements by ten kinds of life energy, and He is the one heart where life energy is generated.
PURPORT
In  Bhagavad-gītā  (7.4-5) it is stated that the eight elements earth, water, fire, air, sky, mind, intelligence and false  cgo  are all products of the Lord's inferior energy, whereas the living entities, who are seen to utilize the inferior energy, originally belong to the superior energy, the internal