Text 4] Bhagavatam is the Answer 551

reference pertains to the sixteen elementary manifestations of earth,
water, etc., with material ego composed of material intelligence and

mind, and the subsequent creation is a result of the reactions of the above-
mentioned sixteen energies of the first purusa, the Maha-Visnu incarnation
of Govinda, as is later on explained by Brahmi in his treatise the Brahma-
sarhita as follows:

yah kdranarnava-jale bhajati sma yoga-
nidram ananta-jagadanda-saromakiipah
adhara-saktim avalambya param sva-mirtim
govindam adi-purusam tamaham bhajami_ (B.s. 5.47)

The first purusa incarnation of Govinda, Lord Krsna, known as the
Maha-Visnu, goes into a yoga-nidra mystic sleep, and the innumerable
universes are situated in potency in each and every hair hole of His tran-
scendental body.

As is mentioned in the previous verse, srutena (or with reference to the
Vedic conclusions), the creation is made possible from the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead directly by manifestation of His particular energies.
Without such a Vedic reference, the creation appears to be a product of
material nature, and this conclusion comes from a poor fund of knowledge.
From Vedic reference it is concluded that the origin of all energies (namely
internal, external, and marginal) is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
And as has been explained hereinbefore, the illusory conclusion is that
creation is made by the inert material nature. The Vedic conclusion is
transcendental light, whereas the non-Vedic conclusion is material dark-
ness. The internal potency of the Supreme Lord is identical with the
Supreme Lord, and the external potency is enlivened in contact with the
internal potency. The parts and parcels of the internal potency which react
in contact with the external potency are called the marginal potency, or
the living entities.

Thus the original creation is directly from the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, or Param Brahman, and the secondary creation, as reactionary
resultant of the original ingredients, is made by Brahma, and the activities
of the whole universe are thus started.

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faiagtera: dat aca: |
Wana aga BIg: Tarear: Iv Il
