SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 35

eko ’py asau rachyitum jagadanda-kotim
yach-chhaktir asti jagadandachaya yad antah
andantara-stha-paramanuchayantara-stham
govindam adi purusam tam aham bhajami [35]

Translation: He is the one truth, both potency and potent; His potency in creating billions of universes is not separate from Him; every universe is within Him, yet simultaneously He is situated within every atom in complete form. Such is the Primeval Lord Govinda who I do worship.

Purport: Clearly distinct from the mundane conception, there is the superior element of transcendence, or chit, present within Krishna. By His sweet will, He creates infinite universes with His inconceivable potency. The entire world is a transformation of His potency. Still, His location is beyond the jurisdiction of this world; all worlds, both spiritual and mundane, are situated within Him, and at the same time He, in His full Form, is situated within not only every universe but within every atom of every universe.

Omnipresence is only a localized aspect of His almighty majesty. Although He is all-pervading, He nonetheless exists always and everywhere in His full-fledged form of the most charming feature in medium (humanlike) proportions. This is His supramundane, transcendental Lordship. By this consideration, the full-fledged theistic axiom of simultaneous inconceivable oneness and distinction is favoured, and the contaminating viewpoint of the mayavada and allied impersonalistic doctrines is summarily disproved.

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