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tial energy in the shape of the universal form, which includes everything
manifested in different varieties of organic and inorganic materials.
Manifested varieties of the universe are therefore not different from the
Lord, just as golden ornaments of different shapes and forms are non-
different from the original stock reserve of gold. In other words, the Lord
is the Supreme Person who controls everything that is within the creation,
and still Ile remains the supreme separate identity, distinct from all
manifested material creation. In the Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 9.4-5) Ile is
therefore said to be Yogesvara. Everything rests on the potency of Lord
Sri Krsna, and still the Lord is different from and transcendental to all
such identities. In the Vedic Purusa-siikta of the Rk-mantra, this is also
confirmed. This philosophical truth of simultaneous oneness and difference
was propounded by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and it is known as
acintya-bhedabheda-tattva. Brahma, Narada and all others are simul-
taneously one with the Lord and different from the Supreme Lord. We are
all one with Ifim, just as the gold ornaments are one in quality with the
stock gold, but the individual gold ornament is never equal in quantity
with the stock gold. The stock gold is never exhausted even if there are
innumerable ornaments emanating from the stock because the stock is
pirnam, complete, and even if pirnam is deducted from the pirnam, still
the supreme piimmam remains the same piirnam. This fact is inconceivable
to our present imperfect senses. Lord Caitanya therefore defined Ilis
theory of philosophy as acintya (inconceivable), and as confirmed in the
Bhagavad-gita as well as in the Bhagavatam, Lord Caitanya’s theory of
acintya-bhedabheda-tattva is the perfect philosophy of the Absolute Truth.

TEXT 17

aferd sary ait afeea TAIT |
ot fad aadecaemae: gar 120!

svadhisnyam pratapan prano
bahis ca pratapaty asau

evam virdjam pratapars
tapaty antar bahth puman

svadhisnyam—radiation; pratapan—by expansion; pranah—living energy;
bahih—external; ca—also; pratapati—illuminated; asau—the sun; evam—in
