Prabhupāda:
- kriyā-śakti-pradhāna saṅkarṣaṇa balarāma
- prākṛtāprākṛta-sṛṣṭi karena nirmāṇa
- (CC Madhya 20.255)
So out of three transcendental propensities of the Supreme Lord, icchā-śakti, jñāna-śakti and kriyā-śakti, the kriyā-śakti, that is represented by . . . or the controller of the kriyā-śakti is Saṅkarṣaṇa, Balarāma. And with that potency, kriyā-śakti potency, the creation, both material creation and spiritual creation, are effected.
- ahaṅkārera adhiṣṭhātā kṛṣṇera icchāya
- goloka, vaikuṇṭha sṛje cic-chakti-dvārāya
- (CC Madhya 20.256)
Cic-chakti-dvārāya. The spiritual potency is manifested in the spiritual world, Goloka Vṛndāvana and spiritual planets.
- yadyapi asṛjya nitya cic-chakti-vilāsa
- tathāpi saṅkarṣaṇa-icchāya tāhāra prakāśa
- (CC Madhya 20.256)
Actually, there is no creation in the spiritual world. The creation means it begins at a certain time and ends at a certain time, but in the spiritual world there is no such beginning. But because we find the creation of this material world by the kriyā-śakti potency of Lord, therefore it is understood that the spiritual world is also manifested by the same potency, with the help of His spiritual energy.
- sahasra-patraṁ kamalaṁ
- gokulākhyaṁ mahat-padam
- tat-karṇikāraṁ tad-dhāma
- tad anantāṁśa-sambhavam
- (CC Madhya 20.258)
That original planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, is described here in the Brahma-saṁhitā "just like a lotus flower."
- māyā-dvāre sṛje teṅho brahmāṇḍera gaṇa
- jaḍa-rūpā prakṛti nahe brahmāṇḍa-kāraṇa
- (CC Madhya 20.259)
Now, so far this material creation is concerned, it is said here that, "By His material potency, He manifests this material world and unlimited universes within the material world." Ah, nobody should think that the material world has come out of nothing, out of void. No. This is confirmed in all Vedic literature and especially in the Brahma-saṁhitā, and in the Bhagavad-gītā also it is stated, mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram (BG 9.10).
So material nature is not independent. It is a misunderstanding, a wrong conception, that matter is working out of its own accord. Matter has no power to work. It is a jaḍa-rūpā. Jaḍa-rūpā means it has no moving capacity or, what is called, initiative. Matter has no initiative. Therefore matter cannot manifest in such a way without the direction of the Supreme Lord. Māyā-dvāre sṛje teṅho brahmāṇḍera gaṇa. Actually, it is His direction, but material potency is help only. That's all.