Text 54] King Citraketu Meets the Lord 153

physical elements to be resources meant for their enjoyment, and they
think themselves to be the enjoyers. However, neither of them is inde-
pendent; they are both energies of the Lord. The original cause for the
material energy and spiritual energy is the Supreme Personality of God-
head. However, although the expansion of the Lord’s energies is the

f original cause, one should not think that the Lord Himself has expanded
in different ways. To condemn the theories of the Mayavadis, the Lord
clearly says in Bhagavad-gita, mat-sthani sarva-bhitani na caham tesv
avasthitah: “All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.” Everything
rests upon Him, and everything is but an expansion of His energies, but
this does not mean that everything is as worshipable as the Lord Himself.
The material expansion is temporary, but the Lord is not temporary. The
living entities are parts of the Lord, but they are not the Lord Himself.
The living entities in this material world are not inconceivable, but the
Lord is. The theory that the Lord’s energies, being expansions of the
Lord, are as good as the Lord is mistaken.

TEXTS 53-54

aa aT: gent fast reas areata |
WMeaAeaTel Aza AN sfeaa: 14 3H

ad anTemathe silaeralfa Arca: |
ATTA FATA TAREE TE AIT Uv!

yatha susuptah puruso
visvam pasyati catmani

atmanam eka-desa-stham
manyate svapna utthitah

evam jagarandadini
Jiva-sthanani cdtmanah

maya-matrami vijfidya
tad-drastararh param smaret

yatha—just as; susuptah—sleeping; purusah—a person; visvam—
the whole universe; pasyati—perceives; ca—also; Gtmani—in himself;
