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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.14
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 14
- dravyaṁ karma ca kālaś ca
- svabhāvo jīva eva ca
- vāsudevāt paro brahman
- na cānyo 'rtho 'sti tattvataḥ
dravyamthe ingredients (earth, water, fire, air and sky) — the ingredients (earth, water, fire, air and sky); karmathe interaction — the interaction; caand — and; kālaḥeternal time — eternal time; caalso — also; svaintuition or nature-bhāvaḥintuition or nature — intuition or nature; jīvaḥthe living being — the living being; evacertainly — certainly; caand — and; vāsudevātfrom Vāsudeva — from Vāsudeva; paraḥdifferentiated parts — differentiated parts; brahmanO brāhmaṇa — O brāhmaṇa; nanever — never; caalso — also; anyaḥseparate — separate; arthaḥvalue — value; astithere is — there is; tattvataḥin truth — in truth.
The five elementary ingredients of creation, the interaction thereof set up by eternal time, and the intuition or nature of the individual living beings are all differentiated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, and in truth there is no other value in them.
This phenomenal world is impersonally the representation of Vāsudeva because the ingredients of its creation, their interaction and the enjoyer of the resultant action, the living being, are all produced by the external and internal energies of Lord Kṛṣṇa. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (BG 7.4-5, Not yet available in the library. Try the live source.). The ingredients, namely earth, water, fire, air and sky, as well as the conception of material identity, intelligence and the mind, are produced of the external energy of the Lord. The living entity who enjoys the interaction of the above gross and subtle ingredients, as set up by eternal time, is an offshoot of internal potency, with freedom to remain either in the material world or in the spiritual world. In the material world the living entity is enticed by deluding nescience, but in the spiritual world he is in the normal condition of spiritual existence without any delusion. The living entity is known as the marginal potency of the Lord. But in all circumstances, neither the material ingredients nor the spiritual parts and parcels are independent of the Personality of Godhead Vāsudeva, for all things, whether products of the external, internal or marginal potencies of the Lord, are simply displays of the same effulgence of the Lord, just as light, heat and smoke are displays of fire. None of them are separate from the fire—all of them combine together to be called fire; similarly, all phenomenal manifestations, as well as the effulgence of the body of Vāsudeva, are His impersonal features, whereas He eternally exists in His transcendental form called sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (BS 5.1), distinct from all conceptions of the material ingredients mentioned above.