122 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 16

tudnadm—of all existences; yat—which; dhruvam—permanent; tat—
that; eva—certainly; antardle—in the middle; api—also.

TRANSLATION

You exist in the beginning, middle and end of everything, from
the most minute particle of the cosmic manifestation —the atom—
to the gigantic universes and total material energy. Nonetheless,
You are eternal, having no beginning, end or middle. You are per-
ceived to exist in these three phases, and thus You are permanent.
When the cosmic manifestation does not exist, You exist as the
original potency.

PURPORT
The Brahma-samhita (5.33) says:

advaitam acyutam anddim ananta-ripam
adyam purdna-purusam nava-yauvanam ca

vedesu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktau
govindam 4Gdi-purusam tm aham bhajami

“] worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda [Krsna], who
is the original person—absolute, infallible, without beginning, although
expanded into unlimited forms, still the same original, the oldest, and
the person always appearing as a fresh youth. Such eternal, blissful, all-
knowing forms of the Lord cannot be understood even by the best Vedic
scholars, but they are always manifest to pure, unalloyed devotees.” The
Supreme Personality of Godhead has no cause, for He is the cause of
everything. The Lord is beyond the workings of cause and effect. He is
eternally existing. In another verse the Brahma-samhita says, andan-
tara-stha-paraménu-cayantara-stham: the Lord exists within the gigan-
tic universe and within the atom. The descent of the Lord into the atom
and the universe indicates that without His presence, nothing could fac-
tually exist. Scientists say that water is a combination of hydrogen and
oxygen, but when they see a vast ocean they are puzzled about where
such a quantity of hydrogen and oxygen could have come from. They
think that everything evolved from chemicals, but where did the chemi-
cals come from? That they do not know. Since the Supreme Personality
