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and illusion upon the Supreme Absolute Truth, Who is Absolute in everything. There is no possibility of change or ignorance or illusion with Him. Supreme Brahman is transcendental and completely different from any sort of material conception. Therefore, in the Supreme Absolute Truth, there is every possibility of inconceivable potential energy.
In the  Svetasvetara Upanishad  it is stated that the Supreme Absolute Personality of Godhead is full of inconceivable energies, and no one else has such energy. By the misunderstanding of such inconceivable energies of the Supreme, one may conclude that the Supreme Absolute Truth is impersonal, but this is false. Such a conclusion is only a delusion experienced by a living being when he is in an acute stage of disease. In  Srimad Bhagwatam  also there are statements that the Supreme  Atma , the Lord, has got inconceivable, innumerable potencies. In the  Brahma Samhita  also it is stated that in the Supreme Spirit there are many variegated, inconceivable energies.
In the Absolute Truth there is no possibility of ignorance. Ignorance and knowledge are conceptions of this world of duality, but in the Absolute there cannot be any ignorance. Therefore it is simply foolishness to consider that the Absolute becomes covered by ignorance. If the Absolute Truth has the possibility of ignorance, how can it be said to be Absolute?
Understanding of the inconceivable energy of the Absolute is the only solution to the question of duality. In other words, the inconceivable energy of the Absolute is the cause of the doctrine of duality. By such inconceivable energy, the Supreme Absolute Truth, without being changed, can produce this cosmic manifestation and the living entities, just as the touchstone can produce unlimited quantities of gold without being changed. Because the Absolute Truth has such inconceivable energy, the material quality of covering by ignorance cannot be applied to the Absolute Truth. True variegatedness in the Absolute Truth is therefore a product of that inconceivable energy. It can be safely concluded that this cosmic manifestation is by-product of that inconceivable energy. And when we accept the inconceivable energy of the Supreme Lord, then there is no duality at all.
The expansion of the energy of the Supreme Lord is as true as the Supreme Lord. In the manifestation of the Supreme energy there is no question of transformation of state. The same example of the touchstone can be cited again: that, in spite of producing unlimited quantities of gold, the touchstone remains the same. (We hear, therefore, some sages say that the Supreme is the Ingredient or Cause of this cosmic manifestation.)
The example of accepting the rope as the snake is also not irregular. When