Devotion is the eternal position of all souls, serving Krishna as the supreme enjoyer through His divine name.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
The Nectar of Devotion — October 31, 1972, Vṛndāvana 721031ND-VRNDAVAN [42:56 Minutes] NOD_721031ND-VRNDAVAN Pradyumna: [reading:] "...Kṛṣṇa we refer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with His many expansions. He is expanded by His plenary part and parcels, His differentiated parts and parcels and His different energies. Kṛṣṇa, in other words, means everything and includes everything. Generally, however, we should understand Kṛṣṇa to mean Kṛṣṇa and His personal expansions. "Kṛṣṇa expands Himself as Baladeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Vāsudeva, Aniruddha, Pradyumna, Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha, as well as many other incarnations and innumerable Viṣṇu expansions.
These are described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to be as numerous as the uncountable waves. So Kṛṣṇa includes all such expansions, as well as His pure devotees. In the Brahmā-saṁhitā it is stated that Kṛṣṇa's expansions are all complete in eternity, blissfulness and cognizance. "Devotional service means to prosecute Kṛṣṇa conscious activities which are favorable to the transcendental pleasure of the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, and any activities which are not favorable to the transcendental favor of the Lord cannot be accepted as devotional service." Prabhupāda: So, Kṛṣṇa does not mean alone. Kṛṣṇa is not imperson.
He's person, and He expands in so many persons. Eko bahu śyām. He is one, but He expands Himself to innumerable forms. The Viṣṇu forms, They are known as svāṁśa; and the servitor forms, the living entities, they are also expansion of Viṣṇu, part and parcel, differentiated, vibhinnāṁśa [Cc Madhya 22.9]. So everything—expansion of Kṛṣṇa.
Parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktiḥ. Parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktiḥ sarvedam akhilaṁ jagat [Viṣṇu Purāṇa 1.22.52]. Whatever we see, experience within this world, within this universe, they're simply expansion of the energy of Kṛṣṇa. Just like fire has got two energies, heat and light, similarly Kṛṣṇa is expanding by His two energies, the material energy and the spiritual energy.
So this material world is expansion of His material energy, and we are marginal. We are also energy. We are not energetic. We are not puruṣa; we are prakṛti. In the Bhagavad-gītā the living entities have been described as prakṛti.
Apareyam itas tu vidhi me prakṛtim parā [Bg. 7.5]. After describing the material energies—earth, water, air, fire, sky, mind, intelligence, ego—Kṛṣṇa says apareyam: all these energies, separated energies, material energies, they are aparā, inferior. But that is also Kṛṣṇa's energies. Inferior means not actually inferior, because they..., there cannot be anything inferior which is emanating from Kṛṣṇa.
The inferior in this sense: by our absence of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Because we have come here in this material world to enjoy, to satisfy, sense satisfaction, sense gratification, we have made it inferior. Otherwise it is not inferior. One who knows how to utilize this energy, for him it is not inferior. Nirbandha-kṛṣṇa-sambandhe yukta-vairāgyam ucyate [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.255].