Text 31] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 233
The entire cosmic manifestation is but an expansion of the Lord’s en-
ergy; everything rests in Him, yet He exists separately, beyond creation,
maintenance and annihilation. The varieties of creation are performed
by His external energy. Because the energy and energetic are one, every-
thing is one (sarvam khalv idarn brahma). Therefore without Krsna, the
Parabrahman, nothing can exist. The difference between the material
and spiritual worlds is that His external energy is manifested in the ma-
terial world whereas His spiritual energy exists in the spiritual world.
Both energies, however, belong to the Supreme Lord, and therefore in a
higher sense there is no exhibition of material energy because everything
is spiritual energy. The energy in which the Lord’s all-pervasiveness is
not realized is called material. Otherwise, everything is spiritual.
Therefore Prahlada prays, ekas tuam eva jagad etam: “You are every-
thing.”
TEXT 31
AT ARARTT AaeTAISHA
ATT ACATTT CAA TTT |
aq Tan fra fatacrat a
A FIAT TAROAT TTR LU
tvam va idam sadasad isa bhavarns tato ’nyo
maya yad atma-para-buddhir iyam hy apartha
yad yasya janma nidhanam sthitir iksanam ca
tad vaitad eva vasukdlavad asti-tarvoh
tvam—You; va—either; idam—the whole universe; sat-asat—con-

sisting of cause and effect (You are the cause, and Your energy is the
effect); isa—O my Lord, the supreme controller; bhavan— Yourself;
tatah—from the universe; anyah—separately situated (the creation is
made by the Lord, yet He remains separate from the creation); maéya—
the energy that appears as a separate creation; yat—of which; dtma-
para-buddhih—the conception of one’s own and another’s; iyam—this;
hi—indeed; apaértha—has no meaning (everything is Your Lordship,
and therefore there is no hope for understanding ‘‘my” and “‘your”);
yat—the substance from which; yasya—of which; janma—creation;
