26 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

appear within the womb of Devaki because the creation was also made in
that way. You were lying in the Causal Ocean as Maha-Visnu, and by Your
breathing process, innumerable universes came into existence. Then You
entered into each of the universes as Garbhodakasayi Visnu. Then again
You expanded Yourself as Ksirodakagayi Visnu and entered into the
hearts of all living entities and entered even within the atoms. Therefore
Your entrance in the womb of Devaki is understandable in the same way.
You appear to have entered, but You are simultaneously all-pervading. We
can understand Your entrance and nonentrance from material examples.
The total material energy remains intact even after being divided into
sixteen elements. The material body is nothing but the combination of the
five gross elements—namely earth, water, fire, air and ether. Whenever there
is a material body, it appears that such elements are newly created,
but actually the elements are always existing outside of the body. Similarly,
although You appear as a child in the womb of Devaki, You are also
existing outside. You are always in Your abode, but still You can simul-
taneously expand Yourself into millions of forms.

“One hasto understand Your appearance with great intelligence because
the material energy is also emanating from You. You are the original
source of the material energy, just as the sun is the source of the sunshine.
The sunshine cannot cover the sun globe, nor can the material energy—
being an emanation from You—cover You. You appear to be in the three
modes of material energy, but actually the three modes of material energy
cannot cover You. This is understood by the highly intellectual philos-
ophers. In other words, although You appear to be within the material
energy, You are never covered by it.”

We hear from the Vedic version that the Supreme Brahman exhibits His
effulgence, and therefore everything becomes illuminated. We can under-
stand from Brahma-samhita that the brahmajyoti, or the Brahman efful-
gence, emanates from the body of the Supreme Lord. And from the
Brahman effulgence, all creation takes place. It is further stated in the
Bhagavad-gita that the Lord is also the support of the Brahman effulgence.
Originally He is the root cause of everything. But persons who are less
intelligent think that when the Supreme Personality of Godhead comes
within this material world, He accepts the material qualities. Such conclu-
sions are not very mature, but are made by the less intelligent.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is directly and indirectly existing
everywhere; He is outside this material creation, and He is also within it.
He is within this material creation not only as Garbhodakaégayi Visnu; He
is also within the atom. Existence is due to His presence. Nothing can be
