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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 16]
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although it appears different from Him. Therefore although Parīkṣit Mahārāja had no need for geographical knowledge of this universe, that knowledge was also spiritual and transcendental because he was thinking of the entire universe as an expansion of the energy of the Lord.
In our preaching work also, we deal with so much property and money and so many books bought and sold, but because these dealings all pertain to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, they should never be considered material. That one is absorbed in thoughts of such management does not mean that he is outside of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If one rigidly observes the regulative principle of chanting sixteen rounds of the  mahā-mantra  every day, his dealings with the material world for the sake of spreading the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are not different from the spiritual cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
TEXT 4
ऋषिरुवाच
न वै महाराज भगवतो मायागुणविभूतेः काष्ठां मनसा बचसा वाधिगन्तुमलं विबुधायुषापि पुरुषस्तस्मात्प्राधान्येनैव भूगोलकविशेषं नाम- रूप मानलक्षणतो व्याख्यास्यामः ॥ ४ ॥
ṛṣir uvāca
na vai mahārāja bhagavato māyā-guṇa-vibhūteḥ kāṣṭhām manasā vacasā vādhigantum alam vibudhāyuṣāpi puruṣas tasmāt prādhān- yenaiva bhū-golaka-viśeṣam nāma-rūpa-māna-lakṣaṇato vyākhyāsyāmaḥ.
ṛṣiḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak; na—not; vai—indeed; mahā-rāja—O great King; bhagavataḥ—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; māyā-guṇa-vibhūteḥ—of the transformation of the qualities of the material energy; kāṣṭhām—the end; manasā—by the mind; vacasā—by words; vā—either; adhigantum—to understand fully; alam—capable; vibudha-āyuṣā—with a duration of life like that of Brahmā; api—even; puruṣaḥ—a person; tasmāt—therefore; prādhānyena—by a general description of the chief places; eva—cer-