40 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 13

were a display of the power of great sages like Narada, but now I see that
all these boys and calves are You.’ After inquiring from Krsna, Lord
Balarama understood that Krsna Himself had become many. That the
Lord can do this is stated in the Brahma-samhita (5.33). Advaitam
acyutam anddim ananta-ripam: although He is one, He can expand
Himself in so many forms. According to the Vedic version, ekam bahu
syam: He can expand Himself into many thousands and millions but
still remain one. In that sense, everything is spiritual because everything
is an expansion of Krsna; that is, everything is an expansion either of
Krsna Himself or of His potency. Because the potency is nondifferent
from the potent, the potency and the potent are one (Sakti-saktimator
abhedah). The Mayavadis, however, say, cid-acit-samanvayah: spirit
and matter are one. This is a wrong conception. Spirit (cit) is different
from matter (acit), as explained by Krsna Himself in Bhagavad-gita
(7.4-5):

bhiimir apo ’nalo vayuh
kham mano buddhir eva ca
aharkara itiyam me
bhinna prakrtir astadha

apareyam itas tv anyam
prakrtim viddhi me param

Jiva-bhitam mahd-baho
yayedam dharyate jagat

“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego—all
together these eight comprise My separated material energies. But
besides this inferior nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is a superior
energy of Mine, which consists of all living entities who are struggling
with material nature and are sustaining the universe.”’ Spirit and matter
cannot be made one, for actually they are superior and inferior energies,
yet the Mayavadis, or Advaita-vadis, try to make them one. This is
wrong. Although spirit and matter ultimately come from the same one
source, they cannot be made one. For example, there are many things
that come from our bodies, but although they come from the same
source, they cannot be made one. We should be careful to note that al-
