14 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

Krsna descends in this material world just to protect the pious and destroy
the impious. That is His vow. The demigods could understand that the
Lord had taken His residence within the womb of Devaki in order to fulfill
this vow. The demigods were very glad that the Lord was appearing to
fulfill His mission, and they addressed Him as satyam param, or the
Supreme Absolute Truth.

Everyone is searching after the truth. That is the philosophical way of
life. The demigods give information that the Supreme Absolute Truth is
Krsna. One who becomes fully Krsna conscious can attain the Absolute
Truth. Krsna is the Absolute Truth. Relative truth is not truth in all the
three phases of eternal time. Time is divided into past, present and future.
Krsna is Truth always, past, present and future. In the material world
everything is being controlled by supreme time, in the course of past,
present and future. But before the creation, Krsna was existing, and when
there is creation, everything is resting in Krsna, and when this creation is
finished, Krsna will remain. Therefore, He is Absolute Truth in all circum-
stances. If there is any truth within this material world, it emanates from
the Supreme Truth, Krsna. If there is any opulence within this material
world, the cause of the opulence is Krsna. If there is any reputation within
this material world, the cause of the reputation is Krsna. If there is any
strength within this material world, the cause of such strength is Krsna. If
there is any wisdom and education within this material world, the cause of
such wisdom and education is Krsna. Therefore Krsna is the source of all
relative truths.

This material world is composed of five principal elements: earth, water,
fire, air and ether, and all such elements are emanations from Krsna. The
material scientists accept these primary five elements as the cause of
material manifestation, but the elements in their gross and subtle states
are produced by Krsna. The living entities who are working within this
material world are also products of His marginal potency. In the Seventh
Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, it is clearly stated that the whole manifesta-
tion is a combination of two kinds of energies of Krsna, the superior energy
and the inferior energy. The living entities are the superior energy, and the
dead material elements are His inferior energy. In its dormant stage, every-
thing remains in Krsna.

The demigods continued to offer their respectful prayers unto the
supreme form of the Personality of Godhead, Krsna, by analytical study of
the material manifestation. What is this material manifestation? It is just
like a tree. A tree stands on the ground. Similarly, the tree of the material
manifestation is standing on the ground of material nature. This material
