Text 17] The Birth of Lord Krsna 221
tal loving attitude toward Him. Thus for people in general, He is not visi-
ble. In the above-mentioned verse from Bhagavad-gitd, therefore, it is
said that although He is all-pervading, everywhere present, He is not
conceivable by the material senses. But actually, although we cannot see
Him, everything is resting in Him. As discussed in the Seventh Chapter
of Bhagavad-gitd, the entire material cosmic manifestation is only a
combination of His two different energies, the superior, spiritual energy
and the inferior, material energy. Just as the sunshine is spread all over
the universe, the energy of the Lord is spread all over the creation, and
everything is resting in that energy.

Yet one should not conclude that because He is spread all over He has
lost His personal existence. To refute such arguments, the Lord says, “I
am everywhere, and everything is in Me, but still I am aloof.” For exam-
ple, a king heads a government which is but the manifestation of the
king’s energy; the different governmental departments are nothing but
the energies of the king, and each department is resting on the king’s
power. But still one cannot expect the king to be present in every depart-
ment personally. That is a crude example. Similarly, all the manifesta-
tions that we see, and everything that exists, both in this material world
and in the spiritual world, are resting on the energy of the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. The creation takes place by the diffusion of His dif-
ferent energies, and, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita, He is everywhere
present by His personal representation, the diffusion of His different
energies.

One may argue that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who creates
the whole cosmic manifestation simply by His glance, cannot come within
the womb of Devaki, the wife of Vasudeva. To eradicate this argument,
Vasudeva said, “My dear Lord, it is not very wonderful that You ap-
peared within the womb of Devaki, for the creation was also made in that
way. You were lying in the Causal Ocean as Maha-Visnu, and by Your
breathing, innumerable universes came into existence. Then You entered
into each of the universes as Garbhodakasayi Visnu. Then again You ex-
panded Yourself as Ksirodakasayi Visnu and entered into the heart of all
living entities and entered even within the atoms. Therefore Your en-
trance into 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.
