Text 54]
King Citraketu Meets the Lord
153
physical elements to be resources meant for their enjoyment, and they think themselves to be the enjoyers. However, neither of them is independent; they are both energies of the Lord. The original cause for the material energy and spiritual energy is the Supreme Personality of God-head. However, although the expansion of the Lord's energies is the original cause, one should not think that the Lord Himself has expanded in different ways. To condemn the theories of the Māyāvādīs, the Lord clearly says in  Bhagavad-gītā ,  mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāham teṣvavasthitaḥ : "All beings are in Me, but I am not in them." Everything rests upon Him, and everything is but an expansion of His energies, but this does not mean that everything is as worshipable as the Lord Himself. The material expansion is temporary, but the Lord is not temporary. The living entities are parts of the Lord, but they are not the Lord Himself. The living entities in this material world are not inconceivable, but the Lord is. The theory that the Lord's energies, being expansions of the Lord, are as good as the Lord is mistaken.
TEXTS 53–54
यथा सुषुप्तः पुरुषो विश्वं पश्यति चात्मनि । 
  आत्मानमेकदेशस्थं मन्यते स्वप्न उत्थितः ॥५३॥ 
  एवं जागरणादीनि जीवस्थानानि चात्मनः । 
  मायामात्राणि विज्ञाय तवुद्रष्टारं परं स्मरेत् ॥५४॥
yathā suṣuptaḥ puruṣo 
  viśvam paśyati cātmani 
  ātmānam eka-deśa-stham 
  manyate svapna utthitaḥ
evam jāgaraṇādīni 
  jīva-sthānāni cātmanaḥ 
  māyā-mātrāṇi vijñāya 
  tad-draṣṭāram param smaret
yathā—just as; suṣuptaḥ—sleeping; puruṣaḥ—a person; viśvam—the whole universe; paśyati—perceives; ca—also; ātmani—in himself;