We are also expansion. The expansion of Viṣṇu-tattva is just like Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha, all the incarnation, all Viṣṇu-tattva, Rāma, Nṛsiṁha. There are so many thousands and millions of expansion, svāṁśa, personal self and separated self. We are also Kṛṣṇa's part-and parcel-expansion; therefore we have got intimate relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
- svāṁśa-vibhinnāṁśa-rūpe hañā vistāra
- ananta vaikuṇṭha-brahmāṇḍe karena vihāra
- (CC Madhya 22.8)
So Kṛṣṇa is both in the spiritual world and the material world. Because we represent Kṛṣṇa, we are in this brahmāṇḍa, conditioned. But there are many living entities who are eternally liberated. They never come to this. How it is, that? Just like the ocean and the rivers. In river, in the river, you will find fishes, and in the ocean you will find fishes. But the . . . sometimes it may be that the fishes of the river may go to the ocean, but the fishes of the ocean never comes to the river. Never comes to the river. There is no place for them. This is a crude example.
Similarly . . . and as the ocean is far, far greater than the river—thousands of rivers cannot be compared with the, I mean to say, measurement of the ocean—similarly, thousands and millions of this material world cannot be compared with the spiritual world. The spiritual world is so great that millions of material world taken together, it can be dropped into the spiritual world. It is such great. Therefore material world is called one-fourth manifestation of Kṛṣṇa's energy, and the spiritual world is called three-fourth manifestation of Kṛṣṇa's energy.