based on this inconceivable form of the Lord. In other words, the whole creation is none other than the Lord Himself, nor is it different from Him; but simultaneously, as God, the Supreme and Original Person, Krishna, He dwells beyond the created manifestation. The impersonalists emphasize the impersonal aspect of the Lord and do not believe in his original Personality, but the sages recognize this original form, of which the impersonal aspect is in fact only one of its aspects. The impersonal and personal conceptions of the Lord therefore exist simultaneously. Unacceptable to human intelligence, this notion must simply be accepted on the authority of the scriptures. It can only be fully realized by progressing on the path of devotional service offered to the Lord, and never by intellectual speculation or inductive logic. The impersonalists rely more or less on it, and that is why they remain steadfast in darkness as far as God, the Supreme Person, Krishna is concerned. Their conception of God remains obscure.

God, the Supreme and Original Person manifests his full emanation, Maha-Visnu, and thus rests on the Causal Ocean which He Himself created. All galaxies emanate from the pores of the skin of his spiritual and absolute body, while He is plunged into the mystical sleep of eternity.

This Maha-Visnu is the first manifestation within the framework of creation. From him came all the galaxies and all the material manifestations then occur, one after the other. The Lord creates the Causal Ocean which forms material creation, like a cloud in the spiritual sky and fragment of its various manifestations. This spiritual heaven is constituted by the deployment of the rays which emanate from his Person, and the cloud of material creation, too, is none other than the Lord. Lying on the Causal Ocean, Maha-Visnu, with his breath, produces all the galaxies. Then penetrating into each of them in the form of Garbhodakasayi Visnu, He creates Brahma, Siva and many other celestial beings to watch over these galaxies, and again absorbs everything in his Person.

Lord Krishna says: “At the end of the life of Brahma, every created manifestation comes into My energy, and when I desire it, by My own power, I create again.”

In truth, all this represents only manifestations of the inconceivable energies of the Lord, about which no one can have any complete information.