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can just imagine, therefore, the gigantic brain whose arrangements sustain the gravity
of the unlimited number of planets and satellites and who creates the ‘unlimited
space in which they float. Jf one considers the intelligence needed to orbit man-made
satellites, one cannot be fooled into thinking that there is not a gigantic intelligence
responsible for the arrangements of the various planetary systems. There is no
reason to believe that all the gigantic planets float in space without the superior
arrangement of a superior intelligence. This subject is clearly dealt with in Bhagavad-
gita, where the Personality of Godhead says, ‘‘l enter into each planet, and by My
energy they stay in orbit.” (Bg. 15.13) Were the planets not held in the grip of the
Personality of Godhead, they would all scatter like dust in the air. Modern scientists
can only impractically explain this inconceivable strength of the Personality of
Godhead.

The potencies of the syllables bha, ga and va apply in terms of many different
meanings. Through His different potential agents, the Lord protects and sustains
everything, but He Himself personally protects and sustains only His devotees, just
as a king personally sustains and protects his own children, while entrusting the
protection and sustenance of the state to various administrative agents. The Lord is
the leader of His devotees, as we learn from Bhagavad-gita, which mentions that the
Personality of Godhead personally instructs His loving devotees how to make certain
progress on the path of devotion and thus surely approach the kingdom of God.
The Lord is also the recipient of all the adoration offered by His devotees, for whom
He is the objective and the goal. For His devotees the Lord creates a favorable con-
dition for developing a sense of transcendental love of Godhead. Sometimes He
does this by taking away a devotee’s material attachments by force and baffling all
his material protective agents, for thus the devotee must completely depend on the
Lord’s protection. In this way the Lord proves Himself the leader of His devotees.

The Lord is not directly attached to the creation, maintenance and destruction
of the material world, for He is eternally busy in the enjoyment of transcendental
bliss with His internal potential paraphernalia. Yet as the initiator of the material
energy as well as the marginal potency (the living beings), He expands Himself as
the purusa-avatdras, who are invested with potencies similar to His. The purusa-
avatdras are also in the category of bhagavat-tattva because each and every one of
them is identical with the original form of the Personality of Godhead. The living
entities are His infinitesimal particles and are qualitatively one with Him. They are
sent into this material world for material enjoyment to fulfill their desires to be
independent individuals, but still they are subject to the supreme will of the Lord.
The Lord deputes Himself in the state of Supersoul to supervise the arrangements
for such material enjoyment. The example of a temporary fair is quite appropriate
in this connection. If the citizens of a state assemble in a fair to enjoy for a short
period, the government deputes a special officer to supervise it. Such an officer is
invested with all governmental power, and therefore he is identical with the govern-
ment. When the fair is over, there is no need of such an officer, and he returns home.
Such an officer is compared to the Paramatma.

The living beings are not all in all. They are undoubtedly parts of the Supreme
Lord and are qualitatively one with Him; yet they are subject to His control. Thus
