Śakti-śaktimator abheda. This is the Vedic injunction. Śakti, śakti means energy, and śaktimator, śaktimator means the person who has got the energy. So abheda, they are nondifferential. You cannot differentiate between the energy and the energetic.
Just like electric powerhouse. The energy is electric . . . electricity. Now, from the electricity energy we are working so many things. So far our household affairs are concerned, by the same electric energy we are getting heat and we are getting also cold. In the refrigerator we see everything is cold. In the heater we find everything is hot, warm. But the same energy is working. So one who knows that this is the electrical energy that is working in a different way, for him, there is no superior or inferior. That is called jñāna. If we are on the platform of knowledge, then there is no distinction between matter and spirit.
And that knowledge we have to acquire. How we have to acquire? We must know it definitely that everything that is manifested . . . in the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa there is a nice verse which describes this energy and the energetic very nicely:
- eka-deśa-sthitasyāgner
- jyotsnā vistāriṇī yathā
- parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktis
- sarvedam akhilaṁ jagat
- (CC Madhya 20.110)
Akhilaṁ jagat. Whatever we are seeing in this, in our presence, whatever we are seeing, they are nothing but different energies of the Supreme Lord. And how they are acting? Just like the electric powerhouse is situated far away from your residential apartment, but from there the energy is being distributed and you are finding heat, cold, and so many things electrically you are working, so although the Supreme Lord is far, far away . . . of course, He is not far, far away, but in our conception, in the material conception, because we cannot see . . . we are on a different planet. So by His energy He is not far away.
Just like the sunlight, the sunshine, in the morning you find the sunshine is within your room, the sun is just within your room. It is actually. But still, the sun is ninety million miles away from you. Similarly, in all circumstances we must understand that Kṛṣṇa is, although far away from us, still He is with us, within us. This is called knowledge. This is called knowledge.
And He says also in the Bhagavad-gītā that sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ (BG 15.15). "I am situated in everyone's heart." So just think how much nearest He is if He is sitting on my heart, and He is actually there, which is called Paramātmā, or the Supersoul. So sarvasya, sarvasya means everyone's, not only in human body, but in animal body, in the atoms also.
Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham (Bs 5.35). Paramāṇu means atom. He is situated. So practically, He is not far away. He is the nearest friend. He also claims in the Bhagavad-gītā, suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām (BG 5.29). "I am the friend of everyone." So this knowledge we have to acquire, that "We have got the greatest powerful friend in Kṛṣṇa, and He is with me." This is knowledge.
Just like when you chant "Kṛṣṇa," Hare Kṛṣṇa, actually the fact is Kṛṣṇa is dancing on your tongue by sound vibration. Kṛṣṇa is not away. It is stated in the scriptures, nāhaṁ tiṣṭhāmi vaikuṇṭhe (Padma Purāna).
He is addressing Nārada, Nārada, a great devotee of Kṛṣṇa. He is explaining to Nārada, nāhaṁ tiṣṭhāmi vaikuṇṭhe yogināṁ hṛdayeṣu ca. The yogīs, the mystic yogīs, they try to find out the Supersoul within themself. That is the yoga system. Yoga, actual yoga system, is to concentrate the mind, to focus the mind on the Supersoul. That is yoga system.
So Kṛṣṇa says that nāhaṁ tiṣṭhāmi vaikuṇṭhe. In the scriptures we find that kingdom of God, that is called Vaikuṇṭha. Vaikuṇṭha means vigata-kuṇṭha yatra. Kuṇṭha means anxieties. The place where there is no anxieties, that is called Vaikuṇṭha. So Kṛṣṇa says that nāhaṁ tiṣṭhāmi vaikuṇṭhe yogināṁ hṛdayeṣu ca: "My dear Nārada, do not think that I am staying in the Vaikuṇṭha, in the kingdom of God only, or in the heart of the yogis only. No." Tatra tiṣṭhāmi nārada yatra gāyanti mad-bhaktāḥ; "Wherever My devotees sing or chant the glories of Me, I stand there. I go there."