Questions about Krishna dissolve all cheating dharmas and establish the peaceful, liberated life meant for humanity.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.5 [partially recorded] — March 25, 1972, Bombay 720325SB-BOMBAY [13:21 Minutes] SB-01.02.05_720325SB-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: ...for your kindly participating in this great movement coming from India. So we are discussing the answer given by Sūta Gosvāmī to the saintly persons, brāhmaṇas, who assembled at Naimiṣāraṇya to have a discourse on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So when the question was there that after departure of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, from this planet to His abode. That we have already described, what is Kṛṣṇa's abode. Kṛṣṇa's abode is there in the spiritual world.
Just like we have got various types of planets within this universe, and there are innumerable universes, and in each and every one of them there are millions and trillions of planets. This is only one-fourth manifestation of Kṛṣṇa's creation, including all these universes. That is stated in the Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: atha vā bahunaitena kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna ekāṁśena viṣṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛtsnam jagat [Bg. 10.42] This whole material world is one-fourth manifestation of one-fourth energy of Kṛṣṇa. The three-fourths energy is exhibited in the spiritual world.
Here, the living entities in all these universes, they are very minority. Just like in the prison house you cannot expect the majority of the population. The majority of population is outside the prison house. Only a few number of criminals, they are in the prison house.
Similarly, all these living entities who are within this material world... It is called durga. Durga, durga means fort, and the superintendent of this durga is called Durgā, durga-śakti: sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni vibharti durgā [Brahmā-saṁhitā 5.44] This is the jurisdiction of Durgā. So mostly the living entities, three-fourth of the living entities, they are in the spiritual world.
They are called nitya-mukta. They do not come within this material world. And the living entities who come within this material world, they are called nitya-baddha, ever-conditioned. Ever-conditioned means before the creation they were conditioned: bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate [Bg. 8.19]. So Kṛṣṇa’s opulence is unlimited, ananta.
Therefore His another name is Ananta. Advaitam acyutam ananta. There is… This is the description of the Brahmā-saṁhitā: advaitam acyutam ananta anādim ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca [Bs. 5.33] He is advaita. Advaita means He is not different from anything, because anything we see, that is energy of Kṛṣṇa: parasya brāhmaṇaḥ śakti tathaiva akhilaṁ jagat.
In the Viṣṇu Purāna [1.22.52] it is said, eka-stāni-sthitasyāgner jyotsnā vistāriṇī yathā parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktis sarvedam akhilaṁ jagat Akhilaṁ jagat: all these universes are exhibition of the energy of Kṛṣṇa, just like the fire can distribute its heat and light from one place. The example is the sun: the great fire, the greatest fire within this universe, it is distributing the heat and light from one place. You can see, everyone, the sun globe. It is lying in one corner of this universe.