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sonal. Although the impersonalist Mayavadi philosophers want to establish
the Absolute Truth as impersonal, yet the Vedic literature itself does not
confirm this. Vedic literature confirms that the Supreme Absolute has multiple
energies, and still the Mayavadi impersonalists want to establish that the
Absolute Truth has no energy. The Absolute Truth is therefore full of energy
and He is a Person. He cannot be established as impersonal.

According to the Vishnu Purana, the living entities are considered as
Kshetrajna energy. Although the living entity is part and parcel of the Supreme
Lord, and is fully cognizant, still he becomes entrapped in the material con-
tamination, and therefore suffers all the miseries therein. Such living entities
live in different positions in proportion to their entanglement in material
Nature. The purport is that the original energy of the Supreme Lord is spiritual
and non-different from the Supreme Absolute Personality of Godhead. The
living entity is called the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord, whereas the
material energy is called inferior. On account of possessing inert and material
inebriety, the living entity, although in the marginal position, becomes entan-
gled with the inferior energy, matter. At that time he forgets his spiritual
significance and identifies himself with the material energy and therefore be-
comes subjected to threefold miseries. When he is, however, free from that
material contamination, he proportionately becomes situated in different
standards of life.

According to the Vedic instruction, everyone should understand the con-
stitutional position of the living entity, the Lord, and the material energy in
their inter-relation. First of all, one should try to understand the constitutional
position of the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead. That Supreme
Personality of Godhead has eternal, cognizant, blissful Body; His spiritual
energy is distributed as eternity, knowledge, and bliss. In His blissful identity
there is His pleasure potency, and in His eternal identity He is the Cause of
everything, and in His cognizant identity He is the Supreme Knowledge.
Krishna means that Supreme Knowledge. In other words, the Supreme
Personality of Krishna is the Reservoir of all knowledge, all pleasure, and all
eternity. That Supreme Knowledge of Krishna is exhibited in three different
energies; they are called internal energy, marginal energy, and external energy.
By internal energy, He exists in Himself with His spiritual paraphernalia, by
marginal existence He exhibits Himself as the living entities, and by His external
energy He exhibits Himself as the material energy. In each and every exhibi-
tion of His different energies there is the background of eternity, pleasure
potency, and cognizance potency.
