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everything. Lord Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gité (10.8), aham
sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate: ‘I am the source of all
spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me.” Krsna,
therefore, is the original cause of everything (sarva-kdrana-kéranam).
When Visnu expands in His all-pervading aspect, we should understand
Him to be the nirdkdra-nirvisesa-brahmajyoti.

Although everything emanates from Krsna, He is ultimately a person.
Aham ddir hi devanadm: He is the origin of Brahma, Visnu and
Maheévara, and from them many other demigods are manifested. Krsna
therefore says in Bhagavad-gita (14.27), brahmano hi pratisthaham:
“Brahman rests upon Me.” The Lord also says:

ye *py anya-devata-bhakta
yajante sraddhayanvitah
te ‘pi mam eva kaunteya
yajanty avidhi-pirvakam
‘Whatever a man may sacrifice to other gods, O son of Kunti, is really
meant for Me alone, but it is offered without true understanding.”
(Bg. 9.23) There are many persons who worship different demigods,
considering all of them to be separate gods, which in fact they are not.
The fact is that every demigod, and every living entity, is part and parcel
of Krsna (mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhitah). The demigods are also in
the category of living entities; they are not separate gods. But men whose
knowledge is immature and contaminated by the modes of material
nature worship various demigods, according to their intelligence.
Therefore they are rebuked in Bhagavad-gitd (kdmais tais tair hrta-
jfianah prapadyante ’nya-devatah). Because they are unintelligent and
not very advanced and have not properly considered the truth, they take
to the worship of various demigods or speculate according to various phi-
losophies, such as the Mayavada philosophy.

Krsna, Visnu, is the actual origin of everything. As stated in the
Vedas, yasya bhdsé sarvam idam vibhati. The Absolute Truth is de-
scribed later in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.28.15) as satyarh jadnam
anantam yad brahma-jyotih sdnatanam. The brahmajyoti is sandtana,
eternal, yet it is dependent on Krgna (brahmano hi pratisthaham). The
