Everything in creation rests on Krishna like pearls on a thread—nothing can exist without His supreme energy.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.7 — August 13, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740813BG-VRNDAVAN [31:20 Minutes] Bg-07.07_740813BG-VRNDAVAN Pradyumna: "[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] The controversy about the Absolute Truth, whether the Absolute Truth is form or formless... There are many philosophers. They, some of them are impersonalist, and some of them are personalist.
They... In India the impersonalist are known as Māyāvādī, and the personalist, they are known as Vaiṣṇavas. So here the decision is given by Kṛṣṇa Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa means Bhagavān.
Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam [SB 1.3.28]. This is the conclusion of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And in the Ṛg Veda also it is said, tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padam: "Viṣṇu is the Supreme"; sadā paśyanti sūrayaḥ, "Those who are demigods, or advanced in spiritual knowledge, they always look after the lotus feet of Viṣṇu." But the demons, they do not know that the Viṣṇu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Absolute Truth. They cannot.
Because they have taken the atheistic attitude, they cannot understand the Absolute Truth as the Supreme Person. na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ [SB 7.5.31] Uru-dāmni baddhāḥ. We are so much conditioned. As... Just like one..., hands and legs are tied up, he cannot do anything independently, similarly, we are so much tied up by the stringent laws of nature that we are not at all independent.
But we are trying to adjust things in this material world to be happy. This is not possible. Therefore śāstra says that they do not know the, what is the aim of life. Na te viduḥ: "They do not know." Svārtha-gatim.
Everyone is self-interested. Each of us, every one of us, we have got our self-interest. But we do not know actually what is our self-interest. The self-interest is to understand Viṣṇu. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padam.
That is our aim. Viṣṇu and Kṛṣṇa, the same. But there is controversy whether Viṣṇu is secondary or Kṛṣṇa is secondary. According to śāstra, nobody's secondary.