Krishna is the eternal source of all creation; understanding Him through devotion solves life's deepest problems.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.6 — August 12, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740812BG-VRNDAVAN [22:37 Minutes] Bg-07.06_740812BG-VRNDAVAN Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] etad-yonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇīty upadhāraya ahaṁ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayas tathā [Bg. 7.6] [leads synonyms] [break] [02:39] Translation: "Of all that is material and all that is spiritual in this world...[know for certain that I am both its origin and dissolution.]" Prabhupāda: [aside:] You can explain in Hindi this verse, so that others may hear in Hindi.
Or you can come here. Speak it in English first. [break] So Kṛṣṇa has explained that He is the source of two energies—the material energy and the spiritual energy. The material energy, consisting of earth, water, air, fire, mind, intelligence and ego; and the spiritual energy, jīva-bhūta, the living entities.
The spiritual energy is described as superior, and material energy is described as inferior. But both of them are energies. Energy means it is controlled; it is generated. Just like electric energy.
Electric energy, it is very powerful. Even by touching electric energy one is shockened immediately. So, but still that electric energy is generated through a source, and the source we call the executive engineer, or the resident engineer, in the electric powerhouse. So Kṛṣṇa says that source of energy, or the resident engineer, like the electric powerhouse, that is Kṛṣṇa. In another place in the Tenth Chapter it is stated, mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram [Bg. 9.10]. Both the prakṛtis—the superior prakṛti, parā-prakṛti, and aparā-prakṛti—both of them are working under the superintendence of Kṛṣṇa.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that "Both these energies, I am the source." Aham... etad-yonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇīty upadhāraya [Bg. 7.6]. Whatever you are seeing within this material world, that is combination of this material and spiritual energy. Without spiritual energy, the material energy has no power. Therefore the spiritual energy is superior. But both of them are being controlled by Kṛṣṇa.
Although there is nothing in this material world which is beyond these two energies, material and spiritual… Anything you take, a big machine, just like we have got experience the airplane, 747—big as it is a small village. Not small; a big, big village. Five hundred people, five hundred passengers are carried with their luggage—a huge airplane. This is latest.
Now what is this big machinery? It is combination of these two energies: the pilot is the spiritual energy, and the machine, the plane, is material energy. Everyone can understand. It is very simple.