Lord Krishna is the foundation of the effulgence emanating from His spiritual and absolute body. Thus, His totally spiritual body and the dazzling effulgence emanating from it are one; this is why it is said of God, “He is Infinite and Absolute.”

This omnipresent radiance makes possible the creation of the entire galaxy through the force of its potential power, which is why everything that exists rests within it.

This dazzling, limitless, and unfathomable radiance, which is, in a sense, the first germ of creation, finds its foundation in Lord Krishna. Therefore, Lord Krishna is the supreme and absolute cause of all creation.

The Lord creates through His innumerable energies. Just as a tiny seed contained within the fruit of the banyan tree has the power to create a vast tree, the Lord, through the power of His radiance, disseminates seeds of an infinite variety that will be “tended” by beings like Brahma, so that they may flourish. The latter cannot create the seeds, but He knows how to make the tree sprout from them, just as a gardener waters and cares for the plants and trees in his orchard, to stimulate their growth.

Lord Krishna is therefore the original and absolute cause of creation, the cause of all causes.

Each galaxy represents Krishna impersonally, for the elements that compose it, their interaction, and the beneficiary, the individual being, all originate from the external and internal energies of Lord Krishna.

The elements of earth, water, fire, air, ether, as well as the false ego or self-identification with the body, intelligence, and mind, all originate from the external energy of the Lord. As for the individual being distinct from Lord Krishna, who benefits from the interaction of these ethereal and material elements brought about by eternal time, he is born of internal potency and has the freedom to dwell either in the spiritual world or in the material universe.

In the material galaxy, however, the individual being distinct from Krishna falls prey to illusory potency, to ignorance, whereas in the spiritual world he experiences his spiritual, natural condition, without the slightest trace of illusion. The individual and distinct being of God represents the marginal energy of the Lord, but whatever the circumstances, neither material elements nor the minute spiritual fragments (us) are independent of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, for all manifestations of external, internal, or marginal energy originate from the same radiance of the Lord.

All phenomenal manifestations, and with them, the radiance emanating from Krishna's spiritual and absolute body, represent his impersonal, that is, formless, aspect, while he himself is eternally situated in his transcendental form, all knowledge, bliss, and eternity, beyond all concepts attached to the material elements mentioned above.