From the purport to SB 2.1.38:
In the Bhagavad-gītā
(9.10), the Supreme Personality of Godhead has verily explained that
the material nature is only an order-carrying agent of His. She is one
of the different potencies of the Lord, and she acts under His direction
only. As the supreme transcendental Lord, He simply casts a glance over
the material principle, and thus the agitation of matter begins, and
the resultant actions are manifested one after another by six kinds of
gradual differentiations. All material creation is moving in that way,
and thus it appears and disappears in due course.
Less
intelligent persons with a poor fund of knowledge cannot accommodate
the thought of this inconceivable potency of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, by
which He appears just like a human being (Bg. 9.11). His appearance in
the material world as one of us is also His causeless mercy upon the
fallen souls. He is transcendental to all material conceptions, but by
His unbounded mercy upon His pure devotees, He comes down and manifests
Himself as the Personality of Godhead. Materialistic philosophers and
scientists are too much engrossed with atomic energy and the gigantic
situation of the universal form, and they offer respect more seriously
to the external phenomenal feature of material manifestations than to
the noumenal principle of spiritual existence. The transcendental form
of the Lord is beyond the jurisdiction of such materialistic activities,
and it is very difficult to conceive that the Lord can be
simultaneously localized and all-pervasive, because the materialistic
philosophers and scientists think of everything in terms of their own
experience. Because they are unable to accept the personal feature of
the Supreme Lord, the Lord is kind enough to demonstrate the virāṭ
feature of His transcendental form, and herein Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī
has vividly described this form of the Lord. He concludes that there is
nothing beyond this gigantic feature of the Lord. None of the
materialistic thoughtful men can go beyond this conception of the
gigantic form. The minds of the materialistic men are flickering and
constantly changing from one aspect to another. Therefore, one is
advised to think of the Lord by thinking of any part of His gigantic
body, and by one’s intelligence only one can think of Him in any
manifestation of the material world — the forest, the hill, the ocean,
the man, the animal, the demigod, the bird, the beast or anything else.
Each and every item of the material manifestation entails a part of the
body of the gigantic form, and thus the flickering mind can be fixed in
the Lord only and nothing else. This process of concentrating on the
different bodily parts of the Lord will gradually diminish the demoniac
challenge of godlessness and bring about gradual development of
devotional service to the Lord. Everything being a part and parcel of
the complete whole, the neophyte student will gradually realize the
hymns of Īśopaniṣad which state that the Supreme Lord is
everywhere, and thus he will learn the art of not committing any offense
to the body of the Lord. This sense of God-mindedness will diminish
one’s pride in challenging the existence of God. Thus one can learn to
show respect to everything, for all things are parts and parcels of the
supreme body.
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