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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.6.33
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 33
- iti te 'bhihitaṁ tāta
- yathedam anupṛcchasi
- nānyad bhagavataḥ kiñcid
- bhāvyaṁ sad-asad-ātmakam
itithus — thus; teunto you — unto you; abhihitamexplained — explained; tātamy dear son — my dear son; yathāas — as; idamall these — all these; anupṛcchasias you have inquired — as you have inquired; nanever — never; anyatanything else — anything else; bhagavataḥbeyond the Personality of Godhead — beyond the Personality of Godhead; kiñcitnothing — nothing; bhāvyamto be thought ever — to be thought ever; satcause — cause; asateffect — effect; ātmakamin the matter of — in the matter of.
My dear son, whatever you inquired from me I have thus explained unto you, and you must know for certain that whatever there is (either as cause or as effect, both in the material and spiritual worlds) is dependent on the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The complete cosmic situation, both in the material and in the spiritual manifestations of the energies of the Lord, is working and moving first as the cause and then as the effect. But the original cause is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Effects of the original cause become the causes of other effects, and thus everything, either permanent or temporary, is working as cause and effect. And because the Lord is the primeval cause of all persons and all energies, He is called the cause of all causes, as confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā as well as in the Bhagavad-gītā. The Brahma-saṁhitā (BS 5.1) affirms:
- īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
- sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
- anādir ādir govindaḥ
- sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
And in the Bhagavad-gītā (BG 10.8, Not yet available in the library. Try the live source.) it is said:
- ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo
- mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate
- iti matvā bhajante māṁ
- budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ
So the original primeval cause is vigraha, the personal, and the impersonal spiritual effulgence, brahmajyoti, is also an effect of the Supreme Brahman (brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham (BG 14.27, Not yet available in the library. Try the live source.)), Lord Kṛṣṇa.