All creation manifests from Krishna alone; self-realization naturally leads to devotional service.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Anantarām Śāstrījī: [chants slokas] vṛndāvane ramaṇe-reti-prasiddha-bhūmau atraiva kṛṣṇa-balarāma supāda-mūle jñānaṁ paraṁ parama-puruṣa bhakti yuktam dātre sadaiva prabhupāda namo namas te Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 7.9.49 [chants verse; Prabhupāda and devotees respond] [break] Ady-antavanta… naite guṇā na guṇino mahad-ādayo ye sarve manaḥ prabhṛtayaḥ sahadeva-martyāḥ ādy-antavanta urugāya vidanti hi tvām evaṁ vimṛśya sudhiyo viramanti śabdāt [SB 7.9.49] Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: [chants synonyms; devotees respond] [break] [02:38] Translation: "Neither the three modes of material nature—sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa—nor their predominating deities, the five gross elements, the mind, the demigods nor the human beings who are all subjected to birth, death and annihilation can understand Your Lordship. Therefore the wise, spiritually advanced men who have taken to devotional service do not much bother with Vedic study, but rather they engage themselves in practical devotional service." Prabhupāda: naite guṇā na guṇino mahad-ādayo ye sarve manaḥ prabhṛtayaḥ sahadeva-martyāḥ ādy-antavanta urugāya vidanti hi tvām evaṁ vimṛśya sudhiyo viramanti śabdāt [SB 7.9.49] So ārādhito yadi haris tapasā tataḥ kim [Nārada Pañcarātra].
Viramanti śabdāt. There are so many prescribed mantras for liberation. Oṁkāra-sarva-vedeṣu. [Bg 7.8] Every Vedic mantra begins with oṁkāra, and He is Kṛṣṇa.
Vedic mantra..., we chant Vedic mantra. There are many, many Vedic mantras in Upaniṣad and tantras, saṁhitā. So the begins with the combination of alphabets a, u, ma—oṁ. Oṁ tad viṣṇuṁ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sūrayaḥ [Ṛg Veda].
[the form of Viṣṇu is the highest individuality and is always visible to sages and saintly persons.] Everything. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Every Vedic mantra begins with the oṁkāra. Some of them are very much fond of chanting oṁkāra instead of Hare Kṛṣṇa.
So there is no objection. Kṛṣṇa says, praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu [Bg 7.8]. Praṇava means oṁkāra. So actually only Kṛṣṇa is there, Para-brahman.
He is only. Sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma [Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1(1)]. Expansion in different varieties of multimanifestation. But if we analyze all these things, ultimately we come to the point that Kṛṣṇa is everything. That requires intelligence, how to analyze.
Therefore here it is said this manifestation, this material manifestation, is guṇa guṇino mahad-ādayo, manaḥ, mind, intelligence, the five gross elements, three subtle elements, all, and manufactured, these demigods, animals, men, martyāḥ, 8,400,000 species. So all these varieties, actually it is simply..., they are simply manifestation of Kṛṣṇa's different manifestation of energy, nothing else. The real center point is Kṛṣṇa. This can be understood by advanced students, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante [Bg 7.19], after studying, studying, studying, not only in one life but for many, many lives.