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and He is also the Destroyer. The manifested Cosmic Nature is created at a certain period by the will of the Lord, it is maintained for some time, and then it is annihilated by His Will; and as such He is the Supreme Will behind all these activities.
There are atheists of various categories who do not believe in the conception of a Creator, but that is due only to their poor fund of knowledge. The modern scientist has created a sputnik, and by some arrangement or other the sputnik is thrown into outer space to fly on for some time at the control of a scientist who is far away from the flying sputniks. All the Universes, with innumerable planets within them, are similar to the sputniks, and are controlled by the Personality of Godhead.
In the Vedic literature it is said that the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is the Chief amongst the living personalities. All living beings, from the first created being, Brahmaji, down to the smallest ant, are all individual living beings. And, above Brahmaji, there are many other living beings with individual capacities, and the Personality of Godhead is also a similar living being, as individual as the other living beings. But the Supreme Lord, or the Supreme Living Being, has the greatest mind, with the supermost inconceivable energies of different varieties. If a man's mind can produce a sputnik, we can very easily imagine that minds higher than man's can produce similar other wonderful things far superior to the man-made sputniks. A reasonable person will easily accept this argument, but there are stubborn, obstinate ones who may not believe in these reasonable statements.
But Srila Vyasadeva at once accepts the Supreme Mind as the  Parameswara , the Supreme Controller. He proposes to offer His respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And that Parameswara is Sri Krishna, as is stated in the  Bhagavad Gita  and all other Scriptures delivered by Srila Vyasadeva, and specifically in the  Srimad Bhagwatam . In the  Bhagavad Gita  the Lord says that there is no other  Paratattwa  ( Summum bonum ) than Himself. Therefore, the Author at once worships the  Paratattwa , Sri Krishna, Whose transcendental activities are described in the Tenth Canto.
Unscrupulous persons go at once to the Tenth Canto, and especially the five chapters where a description of the Lord's  Rasa  Dance is kindly given. This portion of the  Srimad Bhagwatam , however, is the most confidential part of the great literature. Unless one has thoroughly accomplished himself in the transcendental knowledge of the Lord, one is sure to misunderstand the Lord's worshippable transcendental Pastimes in the form of  Rasa  Dance, and His love affairs with the Gopis. The subject matter is highly spiritual and tech-