Krishna alone is the supreme cause of all causes—accept this, and all knowledge becomes perfect.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.7 — February 22, 1974, Bombay 740222BG-BOMBAY [34:38 Minutes] Bg-07.07_740222BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva [Bg. 7.7] [break] [03:00] Translation: "O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no truth superior to Me.
Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread." Prabhupāda: mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva [Bg. 7.7] So the material and spiritual world, everything is manifestation of two energies. That is explained by Kṛṣṇa. Bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca [Bg. 7.4]. Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parām.
On these verses we have discussed two days that etad yonīni sarvāṇi, whatever is manifested, material or spiritual, both of them are coming from the energy of the Supreme. Just like heat and light, these are two energies of the fire. So that is also explained in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa: parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktis tathedam akhilaṁ jagat. eka-deśa-sthitasyāgner jyotsnā vistāriṇī yathā parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktis sarvedam akhilaṁ jagat [Viṣṇu Purāṇa 1.22.52] Sarvedam akhilaṁ jagat or sarvedaṁ khalu brahma, the Vedic injunction. The energy and the energetic cannot be separated. If there is no energy, there is no meaning of the energetic.
And there is no meaning of energetic if it has..., if he has no energy. So those things are simultaneously present. The example, as we have given several times, that the sun and the sunshine and the heat of the shine..., sun, they are always present. Wherever there is sun, there is light and there is heat.
So heat and light is the understanding of the presence of sun. Sometimes sun is covered, but still we experience heat and light. Therefore we understand the sun is there. Similarly Kṛṣṇa, or God, is there.
You have to understand by the energies—the material energy and the spiritual energy. That is already explained in two verses. So now Kṛṣṇa is summarizing in this verse... Because the whole manifestation, sarvedam akhilaṁ jagat, the whole universe is presentation of the energy of the Lord, therefore there is nothing but Lord. Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat [Bg. 7.7].
Just like in this material world, we have got experience, the sun is the cause of all material manifestation. When the sunlight or sun heat... Just like the Western countries, in this season the sunlight and heat is practically not present; therefore it is snowfall. There is no foliar in the trees, every tree is deserted, due to the sun.