Spiritual energy sustains material creation; understand the soul to understand God's supreme nature.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.5 — November 1, 1975, Nairobi 751101BG-NAIROBI [24:34 Minutes] BG-07.05_751101BG-NAIROBI Harikeśa: Translation: "Besides this inferior nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is a superior energy of Mine, which are all living entities who are struggling with material nature and are sustaining the universe." Prabhupāda: apareyam itas tv anyāṁ prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat [Bg. 7.5] So the gross and subtle material energy are already explained in the previous verse. [child making noises] [aside:] The children must go. So the bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca [Bg. 7.4]—earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and ego—these are all material energies. It has nothing to do with the spiritual energy.
And because it is not spiritual energy, it is called aparā, inferior. Just like in our body there are some superior part and some inferior part. We have got the brain, that is superior part. But there are other parts, where we pass stool and urine.
Everything is part of my body, but the position is different, superior and inferior. Similarly, everything is God—sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma—but still, there must be distinction between the superior and the inferior. Although it is Brahman, still, for practical use there is superior and inferior distinction. Those who do not make this distinction, foolishly, they are called nirviśeṣavādī, impersonalist, without any varieties.
But there are varieties actually. Although the body is one, there is no doubt about it, but different parts of the body are considered as superior and inferior. This is called acintya-bhedābheda philosophy: simultaneously one and different. As part of the body, the anus or the genital, it is part of the body, and the brain is also part of the body. Both of them are part of the body, but still, brain is superior than the anus and genital.
So in this way, and upon this philosophy... It is called acintya-bhedābheda. Bheda means distinct, and abheda means one. We should not take one part of the philosophy, that "Everything is one." No.
Everything is one, that is a fact, and still, they are different. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā in the Thirteenth Chapter. Mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā: "In My impersonal form I am all-pervading," jagad avyakta, "but," mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni, "everything is maintained by Me," mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni nāhaṁ teṣu avasthitaḥ [Bg. 9.4], "but I am not there." Just like the jail department is also part of the government, but the president does not live in the jail. Mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni.
If the president says that "The jail department is also my department," that does not mean that president has to live in the jail. It is a gross example. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa, God, is everywhere. Not everywhere; His energy is acting everywhere. The superior energy and the inferior energy, this is the material world, combination of two energies.