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The Lord has multifarious energies, and there-
fore the Lord and His energies are identical.
Among His various energies the material energy is
one, and it is said in the Bhagavaa-gita that the
material energy is inferior in quality to the spiritual
energy. Spiritual energy is superior because with-
out contact with the spiritual energy the material
energy alone cannot produce anything. But the
source of all energies is the all-attractive Personal-
ity of Godhead, Sri Krsna.

This material world is a combination of matter
and spirit, but the spiritual world, which is far, far
away from the material sky, is purely spiritual and
has no contact with matter. In the spiritual world,
everything is spirit. We have already discussed
this. The Personality of Godhead, the original
source of all energies, is able to convert spirit into
matter and matter into spirit. For Him there is no
difference between matter and spirit. He is there-
fore called kaivalya.

In Lord Sri Krsna’s transcendental pastimes, He
reciprocates with spirit, not matter. When He is in
the mortal world, the material qualities cannot
work upon Him. An electrician knows how to take
work from electricity. With the help of electricity he
can turn water into cold or heat. Similarly, the
Personality of Godhead can turn matter into spirit
and spirit into matter by His inconceivable power.
Everything is therefore matter and spirit by the
