God's impersonal energy pervades all creation, yet He remains the transcendent person whom devotion can see everywhere.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: mayā tatam idaṃ sarvaṃ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāhaṃ teṣv avasthitaḥ [Bg 9.4] [By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.] So this verse we have discussed last day. The Lord says that "All the universal planets, they are resting on My energy." The weightlessness energy, according to the modern materialistic science, how it is possible? That weightlessness we cannot manufacture.
It is by nature's law, or, of course, modern scientists, they take nature as the Supreme, but Bhagavad-gītā, or the persons who are theistic, they do not take nature as the Supreme. Supreme is the Lord. Behind the nature there is Lord. We'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā, mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram hetunānena kaunteya jagad viparivartate [Bg 9.10] [This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.] The Lord says mayādhyakṣeṇa. Mayādhyakṣeṇa means "under My superintendence." "Under My superintendence." So material nature cannot play such wonderful things unless there is hand behind it, the Lord's hand. That is to be accepted. You cannot see.
You cannot give an example where material things are automatically working. You have no such example in your experience. Matter is inert. Without spiritual touch, there is no possibility of acting.
Matter cannot act automatically. Just like you take, for example, a nice arrangement of machine, wonderful, but unless a person touches that machinery, it cannot work. It cannot work. And what is that person?
That person is spirit, the driver, the engineer. He's a spirit. So without spiritual touch, oh, nothing can move. It is simply ignorance that we say that matter is moving automatically. No.
That is not possible. You cannot show any example within your experience or in the history that matter is moving automatically. No. So the Lord says that "All these planets, all this universe, they are resting on My impersonal energy." So His energy is impersonal, but He is person. He is person.
We have so many examples in our experience that a person, by his energy, he can play wonders by his energy. But still, the person remains as person. Because he is expanding energy in various ways, he does not become imperson. So if a ordinary man in this world, he can expand his energy in various ways and at the same time he can remain a person, why not the Supreme Personality of Godhead?