Krishna's perfect energies pervade creation while He remains the supreme person, directing all existence through natural laws.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.3.12 — February 3, 1971, Gorakhpur 710203SB-GORAKPHUR [55:52 Minutes] SB-06.03.12_710203SB-GORAKPHUR Devotee: [introducing recording] On arrival in Gorakhpur, on the morning of the 3rd January [sic] '71, Śrīla Prabhupāda gives Bhāgavatam lecture. Prabhupāda: ... uvāca paro mad-anyo jagatas tasthuṣaś ca otaṁ protaṁ paṭavad yatra viśvam yad-aṁśato 'sya sthiti-janma-nāśā nasy otavad yasya vaśe ca lokaḥ [SB 6.3.12] Yamarāja is describing about his superior, master. First qualification is that Yamarāja is the controller of an insignificant portion of the universal affairs. Just like there are departmental director, but the master of Yamarāja, He is controller of creation, maintenance and annihilation. Otaṁ protaṁ paṭavad yatra viśvam—this cosmic manifestation is just like thread woven this side and that side. Both sides there are threads, just as cloth there are two sides; both sides length and width, both sides there are the threads.
Similarly, the whole cosmic manifestation, lengthwise and widthwise, the energy of the supreme master is working. In the Bhagavad-gītā also it is said, sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva [Bg. 7.7]. Just like in one thread there are beads or pearls woven, so Kṛṣṇa, or the Absolute Truth, is just like the thread, and everything, all planets or all globes, all universes, they are woven in a thread, and that thread is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa also says, ekāṁśena sthito jagat [Bg. 10.42]: in one-fourth energy, the whole material creation is resting. Similarly, there is another statement in the Bhagavad-gītā: aham sarvaṁ idaṁ tatam jagad avyakta-mūrtinā [Bg. 9.4] "I am spread by My energy, which is taken as impersonal Brahman." Aham sarvaṁ idaṁ tatam. Tatam means "spread." Whatever we are seeing, that is spreading of the energy of the Supreme Lord.
Just like this heat He is spreading. Heat expands. There are waves of heat and light, as you know, but the original source of the wave, I think we have given the picture, the wave of light is coming from the Vṛndāvana, Goloka Vṛndāvana. That is an idea.
There are different waves. So that wave is spreading all over. And that is confirmed in the Vedic literature: sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma [Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1]. Īśāvāsyam idam sarvaṁ [Īśo mantra 1]. His energy is spread everywhere, parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktih sarvedam akhilaṁ jagat [Viṣṇu Purāṇa 1.22.52]. That is in Viṣṇu Purāṇa.
That is impersonal. The energy which is emanating from the Supreme Person, that is impersonal Brahman. Not that there is no more, I mean, superior than the Brahman. That is a mistake of the Māyāvādī school.
They take that expansion of the brahmajyoti is final. But that is not final. We get information from Bhagavad-gītā that brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham [Bg. 14.27]. This impersonal Brahman effulgence, which is spread everywhere, mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ [Bg. 9.4]—although Kṛṣṇa says mayā, "by Me," "by Me" does not mean that…, brahmajyoti means that Kṛṣṇa has become vanquished; there is no more Kṛṣṇa. The Māyāvādī philosophy is based on this understanding, that if the Absolute Truth is spread everywhere, so there is no question of the Absolute Truth becoming a person.
They cannot adjust like that, although Kṛṣṇa personally says that brahmaṇo aham pratiṣṭhāham [Bg. 14.27]: "I am the source, or the strength, or the platform from which the brahmajyoti is emanating." It is not very difficult to understand. This fire is here, localized, but the heat is expanding, expands—parasya brāhmaṇaḥ śakti [Viṣṇu Purāṇa]. So although Kṛṣṇa's energies are spread everywhere, this does not mean Kṛṣṇa has become imperson. Why He should be imperson?