God is simultaneously far and nearest, the ingredient, creator, and substance of all existence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Hayagrīva: Berkeley. Berkeley--a very brief section on Berkeley. Berkeley seems to be arguing against objective reality. In other words, three men standing in a field looking at a tree could all have a different impression or idea of the tree, or at least according to his argument. The problem is although there are three impressions of the tree, each differing from one another, there is no tree as such. Now, how does the tree as such exist? In the mind of God? Is it possible for a conditioned living entity to perceive the suchness or essence of anything?
Prabhupāda: Everything is God, expansion of God's energy. So how tree or anything can be without reference to God? We see that the earthen pot is on the ground, on the... What is called; ground?
Prabhupāda: Earthen pot, pot, pots made of earth.
Hayagrīva: Earthen pots, pot that's made of earth.
Prabhupāda: So it is staying on earth, so the earthen pot is not different from
the earth. So everything is expansion of God's energy. How we can avoid God with reference to anything that we see? There cannot be anything independent of God. The example is there: the earthen pot, as soon as we see, we remember the potter. That, "Who has made?" And the wheel of the potter. So ah... God is the original creator, He is the ingredient and He is the category also, and He is the original substance. That is the conception, Vedic conception of God. He is everything. That is nondual conception and if you make anything separate from God. Then how you can say: sarva khalv ida brahma [Chndogya Up. 3.14.1], "Everything is Brahman"? Then, then if you say everything is God, at the same time you separate something from God, so that is. What is called? Contradiction.
Prabhupāda: Our conception is, "Yes, actually everything has reference to the God, so everything is God's property. It should be utilized for God's service." That is our Ka consciousness movement.