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Prahlāda Pacifies the Lord with Prayers
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The entire cosmic manifestation is but an expansion of the Lord's energy; everything rests in Him, yet He exists separately, beyond creation, maintenance and annihilation. The varieties of creation are performed by His external energy. Because the energy and energetic are one, everything is one ( sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma ). Therefore without Kṛṣṇa, the Parabrahman, nothing can exist. The difference between the material and spiritual worlds is that His external energy is manifested in the material world whereas His spiritual energy exists in the spiritual world. Both energies, however, belong to the Supreme Lord, and therefore in a higher sense there is no exhibition of material energy because everything is spiritual energy. The energy in which the Lord's all-pervasiveness is not realized is called material. Otherwise, everything is spiritual. Therefore Prahlāda prays,  ekas tvam eva jagad etam : "You are everything."
TEXT 31
त्वं वा इदं सदसदीश भवांस्ततोऽन्यो माया यदात्मपरबुद्धिरियं ह्यपार्था । यद् यस्य जन्म निधनं स्थितिरीक्षणं च तद् वैतदेव वसुकालवदष्टितर्वोः॥३१॥
tvaṁ vā idaṁ sadasad īśa bhavāṁs tato 'nyo māyā yad ātma-para-buddhir iyaṁ hy apārthā yad yasya janma nidhanaṁ sthitir īkṣaṇaṁ ca tad vaitad eva vasukālavad aṣṭi-tarvoḥ
tvam —You;  vā —either;  idam —the whole universe;  sat-asat —consisting of cause and effect (You are the cause, and Your energy is the effect);  īśa —O my Lord, the supreme controller;  bhavān —Yourself;  tataḥ —from the universe;  anyaḥ —separately situated (the creation is made by the Lord, yet He remains separate from the creation);  māyā —the energy that appears as a separate creation;  yat —of which;  ātma-para-buddhiḥ —the conception of one's own and another's;  iyam —this;  hi —indeed;  apārthā —has no meaning (everything is Your Lordship, and therefore there is no hope for understanding "my" and "your");  yat —the substance from which;  yasya —of which;  janma —creation;