envelope. Both energies, material and spiritual, operate under My sovereign authority. I ask you not to grieve so much, and to try to see everything with philosophy. You will understand therefore that you are always with Me, and that there is therefore no cause for lamentation in the separation of our bodies.

I grant faith and refuge to anyone who abandons himself to Me and makes a vow to serve Me forever, for that is My nature. I am the foundation of the Supreme Impersonal Spiritual Being, which is immortal, inexhaustible, eternal, and which constitutes the very principle of ultimate happiness.

This galaxy (The Milky Way) is entirely permeated by Me, in My form not manifested. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them. At the same time, nothing that is created is in Me. See My supernatural power, I support all beings, I am everywhere present and yet, I remain the very source of all creation. As in the ethereal space stands the mighty wind, blowing everywhere, so know it, in Me all beings stand.

I am the seed of all existence. Nothing mobile or still exists without Me. My divine glories know no bounds. What I have revealed to you is only an example, a tiny bit of My infinite greatness. All that is beautiful, powerful, glorious, hatches, know it, is only a simple fragment of My splendor. But what good are all these details, because the whole galaxy, by a simple spark of My Person, I penetrate it and support it.

The knowledge of material nature.

By his internal power, the Lord ensures the transcendent existence of all the stars which float in the spiritual sky and where all the inhabitants are eternally liberated souls. The influence of material energy is conspicuous in its absence. Outside of the spiritual planets there is the impersonal manifestation of Lord Krishna known as Brahmaloka, and further still, the causal ocean. On the opposite shore of the Causal Ocean, stands, without touching it, the material energy. The spiritual waters of the Causal Ocean carry Mahā-Viṣṇu, the Original Supreme Being who proceeded from Saṅkarṣaṇa, the full emanation of Krishna. He directs his gaze on material energy, and by a reflection of his transcendent body He amalgamates with material elements.

Material energy, although being the source of material elements and the origin of material manifestations, it is inert because it lacks the power to act autonomously. Mahā-Viṣṇu gaze confers upon him the power necessary to produce the cosmic manifestation; therefore it cannot be the original cause. It is Mahā-Viṣṇu transcendental gaze on material nature that brings about this cosmic manifestation.