Text 15] The Cause of All Causes 237
the resultant action, the living being, are all produced by the external and
internal energies of Lord Krsna. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita
(Bg. 7.4-5). The ingredients, namely earth, water, fire, air, sky, as well as
the conception of material identity, intelligence, and the mind, are pro-
duced of the external energy of the Lord. The living entity who enjoys the
interaction of the above gross and subtle ingredients, as set up by the
eternal time, is the offshoot of internal potency, with freedom either to
remain in the material world or in the spiritual world. In the material world
the livingentily is enticed by deluding nescience, but in the spiritual world
he is in the normal condition of spiritual existence without any delusion,
The living entily is known as the marginal potency of the Lord. But in all
circumstances, neither the material ingredients nor the spiritual parts and
parcels are independent from the Personality of Godhead Vasudeva because
all things, either products of the external, internal, or marginal potencies
of the Lord, are simply displays of the same effulgence of the Lord, just
as light, heat and smoke are displays of fire. None of them are separate
from the fire—all of them combine together to be called fire; similarly, all
phenomenal manifestations, as well as the effulgence of the body of
Vasudeva, are His impersonal features, whereas He eternally exists in His
transcendental form called sac-cid-dnanda-vigrahah, distinct from all con-
ceptions of the material ingredients mentioned above.
TEXT 15
ATTAIN FI SA ATTATT ASH: |
ATITTT ST ATTN AAT 24M
narayana-para veda
deva nardyandnga-jah
narayana-para loka
nardyana-para makhah
narayana—the Supreme Lord; parah—is the cause and is meant for;
vedah—knowledge; devah—the demigods; ndraéyana—the Supreme Lord;
anga-jah—assisting hands; naréyana—the Personality of Godhead; parah—
for the sake of; lokah—the planets; na@ra@yana—the Supreme Lord; parah—
just please Him; makhah—all sacrifices.
