Prabhupada, Bombay, November 17, 1975 — So we can see that sun is in the center of the universe, but it is illuminating and heating the whole universe. Similarly, Krishna is situated in his own abode, Goloka Vrindavana, but by distribution of His different energies He is all-pervading. This is the idea.
When you speak God “all-pervading”—His energy. But He is not different from His energy. Sakti-saktimatayor abheda. Saktiman, the energetic, and the energy, they are not different. In the Bhagavad-gita also it is said — Krishna says — maya tatam idam sarvam jagat avyakta-murtina: “I am situated all over the universe in My avyakta form, nonmanifested form.”
The manifested form is Krishna. That is in Goloka Vrindavana. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate. He is distributed all over the universe, everywhere. Andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham. He is within the universe, andantara-stham, and paramanu-cayantara-stham, within the atom also.
That is all-pervading. Sarvam khalv idam brahma. So this is to be understood. The God is simultaneously localized and all-pervading. The Mayavadi philosophers, they think materially, that, “If God is all- pervading, why He should be localized?”
Why He should not be? That is answer. God is not under your dictation. He is all-powerful. He can do so. Remaining in His own place, He can be distributed. He can distribute Himself everywhere. Andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam [Bs. 5.33].
eko ’py asau racayitum jagad-anda-kotim yac-caktir asti jagad-anda-caya yad-antah andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami [Bs. 5.35]
This is the conception of all-pervading.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 20.110-111
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bombay, November 17, 1975
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