Through its internal power, Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa ensures the transcendent existence of all the stars which float in the spiritual sky and where all the inhabitants are souls eternally liberated. The influence of material energy is conspicuous in its absence. On these planets reigns the second quadruple manifestation. Outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets there is the impersonal manifestation of Śrī Kṛiṣhṇa known as Brahmaloka, and further still, the Causal Ocean. On the opposite shore of the Causal Ocean stands, without touching it, material energy. The spiritual waters of the Causal Ocean carry Mahā-Viṣṇu, the Original Supreme Being who proceeds from Saṅkarṣaṇa. He directs his gaze on the material energy, and by a reflection of his transcendent body He amalgamates with the material elements.
As the source of material elements, material energy takes the name of pradhāna, and as the origin of material manifestations it is known as māyā. However, the material nature is inert because it lacks the power to act autonomously. The gaze of Mahā-Viṣṇu confers upon him the power necessary to produce the cosmic manifestation; therefore it cannot be the original cause. It is Mahā-Viṣṇu's transcendent gaze on material nature that brings about this cosmic manifestation. Mahā-Viṣṇu then penetrates into each galaxy in the person of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, uniting all living beings in Him. From Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu proceeds Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the Supreme Soul of every living being. Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu also has his own planet Vaikuṇṭha in each galaxy, where He resides as the Supreme Soul, the Absolute Master. Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu lies down on the waters which fill part of the galaxy and gives birth to Brahmā, the first creature. The universal, imaginary form is a partial manifestation of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu.
On the spiritual planet Vaikuṇṭha located in each galaxy is an ocean of milk, and on it, an island called Śvetadvīpa, home of Lord Viṣṇu. Lord Kṛiṣhṇa is Himself the Absolute Truth, the ultimate reality, one and indivisible. He manifests himself in three aspects: the Impersonal Spiritual Being, the Supreme Soul and the Supreme Person in his personal, primordial, original form. In truth, the Impersonal Spiritual Being, the Supreme Soul or Holy Spirit and the Supreme Person Krishna in his personal and original form are all aspects of one and only Absolute Truth. The realizations of the impersonal Spiritual Being and of the Supreme Soul are thus only steps towards the ultimate realization, that of the Supreme Person of God. Krishna, the Supreme Lord, is the ultimate goal of the realization of the spiritual being. Nothing and no one surpasses Krishna.
It is important that every living being understands its intrinsic nature, that of the Lord and that of material energy, as well as their interconnection. It is first of all a matter of seeking to know the true nature of God, the Supreme Person.
The Lord has an eternal, conscious, blissful body, and his spiritual energy is characterized by eternity, knowledge, and bliss.