Text 4] Brahma’s Prayers for Creative Energy 335
Lord. Lord Brahma became aware that the Supreme Lord Krgna has many,
many eternal, blissful forms of knowledge. He has described such expan-
sions of the Supreme Lord, Govinda, in his Brahma-samhita (Bs. 5.33), as
follows:
advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam
adyam purana-purisam nava-yauvanam ca
vedesu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktau
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami.
“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is nondual and infallible. He
is the original cause of all causes, even though He expands in many, many
forms. Although He is the oldest personality, He is ever youthful, un-
affected by old age. The Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot be
known by the academic wisdom of the Vedas; one has to approach the
devotee of the Lord to understand Him.”

The only way to understand the Lord as He is, is by devotional service
to the Lord, or by approaching the devotee of the Lord who always has
the Lord in his heart. By devotional perfection one can understand that
the impersonal brahmajyoti is only a partial representation of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Lord Krsna, and that the three purusa expansions
in the material creation are His plenary portions. In the spiritual sky of the
brahmajyoti there is no change of various kalpas or millenniums, and there
are no creative activities in the Vaikuntha worlds. The influence of time
is conspicuous by its absence. The rays of the transcendental body of
the Lord, the unlimited brahmajyoti, are undeterred by the influence of
material energy. In the material world also, the initial creator is the Lord
Himself. He brings about the creation of Brahma, who becomes the sub-
sequent creator, empowered by the Lord.

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