Knowledge of Krsna’s Energies 27
dently or automatically. Machines may be very
wonderfully constructed, but unless a man touches
that machine, it cannot work. And what is that man?
Ile is a spiritual spark. Without spiritual touch,
nothing can move; therefore everything is resting on
Krsna’s impersonal energy. Krsna’s energy is im-
personal, but He is a person. We often hear of persons
performing wonderful actions, yet despite their
energetic accomplishments, they still remain persons.
If this is possible for human beings, why isn’t it
possible for the Supreme Lord? We are all persons,
hut we are all dependent upon Krsna, the Supreme
Person.

We have often seen pictures of Atlas, a stout man
hearing a large planet on his shoulders and struggling
very hard to hold it up. We may think that because
Krsna is maintaining the universe, He is struggling
under its burden like Atlas. But this is not the case.

na ca mat-sthani bhutani
pasya me yogam aisvaram
bhuta-bhrn na ca bhuta-stho
mamatma bhuta-bhavanah
‘And yet everything that is created does not rest in
Me. Behold My mystic opulence. Although I am the
maintainer of all living entities and although I am
everywhere, still My Self is the very source of crea-
lion.” (Bg. 9.5)

Although all beings in the universe are resting in
Krsna’s energy, still they are not in Him. Krsna is
maintaining all living entities, and His energy is all-
pervading, yet He is elsewhere. This is Krsna’s incon-
