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and illusion upon the Supreme Absolute Truth, Who is Absolute in every-
thing. There is no possibility of change or ignorance or illusion with Him.
Supreme Brahman is transcendental and completely different from any sort
of material conception. Therefore, in the Supreme Absolute Truth, there is
every possibility of inconceivable potential energy.

In the Svetasvetara Upanishad it is stated that the Supreme Absolute Per-
sonality of Godhead is full of inconceivable energies, and no one else has such
energy. By the misunderstanding of such inconceivable energies of the
Supreme, one may conclude that the Supreme Absolute Truth is impersonal,
but this is false. Such a conclusion is only a delusion experienced by a living
being when he is in an acute stage of disease. In Srimad Bhagwatam also there
are statements that the Supreme Atma, the Lord, has got inconceivable, in-
numerable potencies. In the Brahma Samhita also it is stated that in the Supreme
Spirit there are many variegated, inconceivable energies.

In the Absolute Truth there is no possibility of ignorance. Ignorance and
knowledge are conceptions of this world of duality, but in the Absolute there
cannot be any ignorance. Therefore it is simply foolishness to consider that the
Absolute becomes covered by ignorance. If the Absolute Truth has the pos-
sibility of ignorance, how can it be said to be Absolute?

Understanding of the inconceivable energy of the Absolute is the only
solution to the question of duality. In other words, the inconceivable energy
of the Absolute is the cause of the doctrine of duality. By such inconceivable
energy, the Supreme Absolute Truth, without being changed, can produce
this cosmic manifestation and the living entities, just as the touchstone can
produce unlimited quantities of gold without being changed. Because the
Absolute Truth has such inconceivable energy, the material quality of covering
by ignorance cannot be applied to the Absolute Truth. True variegatedness
in the Absolute Truth is therefore a product of that inconceivable energy.
It can be safely concluded that this cosmic manifestation is by-product of that
inconceivable energy. And when we accept the inconceivable energy of the
Supreme Lord, then there is no duality at all.

The expansion of the energy of the Supreme Lord is as true as the Supreme
Lord. In the manifestation of the Supreme energy there is no question of
transformation of state. The same example of the touchstone can be cited
again: that, in spite of producing unlimited quantities of gold, the touchstone
remains the same. (We hear, therefore, some sages say that the Supreme is
the Ingredient or Cause of this cosmic manifestation.)

The example of accepting the rope as the snake is also not irregular. When
