Krishna remains infinitely whole while emanating all energies; study His energies to know His unlimited personal nature.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: mukhya-gauṇa-vṛtti, kiṃvā anvaya-vyatireke vedera pratijñā kevala kahaye kṛṣṇake [Cc Madhya 20.146] [When one accepts the Vedic literature by interpretation or even by dictionary meaning, directly or indirectly the ultimate declaration of Vedic knowledge points to Lord Kṛṣṇa.] So Lord Caitanya says, "You study Vedas in any way—directly, indirectly. In whatever way we like, you study Vedas, but the ultimate objective is Kṛṣṇa." Now Caitanya, Lord Caitanya, is describing about the various forms of Kṛṣṇa. This is very important subject. How Kṛṣṇa is all-pervading, He is describing. kṛṣṇera svarūpa-ananta, vaibhava-apāra cic-chakti, māyā-śakti, jīva-śakti āra [Cc Madhya 20.149] [The transcendental form of Lord Kṛṣṇa is unlimited and also has unlimited opulence. He possesses the internal potency, external potency and marginal potency.] Kṛṣṇera svarūpa ananta. The transcendental forms of Kṛṣṇa, innumerable, vaibhava, and His opulence, that is also innumerable. Nobody can estimate. How many forms are there of Kṛṣṇa or how much opulent He is, nobody can estimate; nobody can measure.
This is inconceivable. The first proposition. Cic-chakti māyā-śakti jīva-śakti āra. And His potency are also unlimited, out of which, three potencies are generally accepted: cit-śakti, spiritual potency; material potency; and marginal potency. These three potencies I have described many times.
Cit-śakti, the spiritual potency, is a manifestation of the spiritual world, and material potency is a manifestation of this material world, and the marginal potency, we are, we living entities. We are marginal potency. Why it is marginal? Because although we belong to the spiritual potency, but we have got tendency to come into contact of this material potency. Therefore it is called marginal, "this way or that way." That slight independence which is there in every living entity, he can use that, and he may select either to live in the spiritual potency or in the material potency.
Therefore the living entities are called marginal potency. So parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate [Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8]. [The Supreme Lord has nothing to do. Nothing is equal to Him or greater than Him. He acts in different phases by manifesting His parts and parcels, which are all simultaneously differently situated by His unlimited, variegated potencies. Each potency acts quite naturally in sequences, providing Him full knowledge, power and pastimes.] Although the energies of the Supreme Lord are innumerable—nobody can count or measure—but they are divided into three. vaikuṇṭha, brahmāṇòa-gaṇa-śakti-kārya haya svarūpa-śakti śakti-kāryera-kṛṣṇa samāśraya [Cc Madhya 20.150] [The material and the spiritual world are transformations of Kṛṣṇa’s external and internal potencies respectively. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is the original source of both the material and the spiritual manifestations.] Now, Lord Caitanya says, Vaikuṇṭha. Just like this universe is a jagad-aṇòa, is a big round ball, aṇòa. Aṇòa means egglike, just like egg is round.
Therefore it is called brahmāṇòa. Brahmāṇòa. It is a round ball. Every planet is round, and the universe is also round, and the Vaikuṇṭhas are also round.
All round. Vaikuṇṭha, brahmāṇòa-gaṇa-śakti-kārya haya. So all these universes, the universe which you experience... There are innumerable universes that we cannot see.
We can see only one universe, and in one universe there are innumerable planets. Similarly, there are innumerable universes, and in each universe there are innumerable planets. This information we get from Brahma-saṃhitā. yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇòa-koṭikoṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi vibhūti-bhinnam tad brahma niṣkalam anantam aśeṣa-bhūtaṃ govindam ādi-puruṣaṃ tam ahaṃ bhajāmi [Bs 5.40] [I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose effulgence is the source of the nondifferentiated Brahman mentioned in the Upaniṣads, being differentiated from the infinity of glories of the mundane universe appears as the indivisible, infinite, limitless, truth.] That brahma-jyoti, in that brahma-jyoti there are all these universes and Vaikuṇṭhas. All, they are resting in that brahma-jyoti. Just like in the sunshine so many planets are resting, similarly, in the brahma-jyoti, the personal shining of Lord Kṛṣṇa, in that shining which is called brahma-jyoti, all the universes and Vaikuṇṭha planets or universes, they are all resting.