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Śrīnad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 16]
TEXT 52
लोके विततमात्मानं लोकं चात्मनि सन्ततम् । उभयं च मया व्याप्तं मयि चैवोभयं कृतम् ॥५२॥
loke vitatam ātmānam   lokam cātmani santatam   ubhayam ca mayā vyāptam   mayi caivobhayam kṛtam
loke —in this material world;  vitatam —expanded (in the spirit of material enjoyment);  ātmānam —the living entity;  lokam —the material world;  ca —also;  ātmani —in the living entity;  santatam —spread;  ubhayam —both (the material world of material elements and the living entity);  ca —and;  mayā —by Me;  vyāptam —pervaded;  mayi —in Me;  ca —also;  eva —indeed;  ubhayam —both of them;  kṛtam —created.
TRANSLATION
In this world of matter, which the conditioned soul accepts as consisting of enjoyable resources, the conditioned soul expands, thinking that he is the enjoyer of the material world. Similarly, the material world expands in the living entity as a source of enjoyment. In this way they both expand, but because they are My energies, they are both pervaded by Me. As the Supreme Lord, I am the cause of these effects, and one should know that both of them rest in Me.
PURPORT
The Māyāvāda philosophy sees everything as being equal in quality with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or the Supreme Brahman, and therefore sees everything as worshipable. This dangerous theory of the Māyāvāda school has turned people in general toward atheism. On the strength of this theory, one thinks that he is God, but this is not a fact. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  ( mayā tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-mūr-tinā ), the fact is that the entire cosmic manifestation is an expansion of the Supreme Lord's energies, which are manifested in the physical elements and the living entities. The living entities wrongly consider the