- ekas tvam eva jagad etam amuṣya yat tvam
- ādy-antayoḥ pṛthag avasyasi madhyataś ca
- sṛṣṭvā guṇa-vyatikaraṁ nija-māyayedaṁ
- nāneva tair avasitas tad anupraviṣṭaḥ
- (SB 7.9.30)
Very interesting. This is realization of God. There is difference, varieties; at the same time they're one. Unity in variety. So in the Brahma-saṁhitā also it is stated, eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi (BS 5.35). There are many millions of universes, jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi. Jagad-aṇḍa means "this universe," and koṭi means "millions." Don't think this is the only universe. There are many millions' universes. In God creation there is no limitation. Everything unlimited. Even this universe, to us it is a great, wonderful thing. We do not know even what are there in the four corners of this universe—millions and millions of stars, millions of planets, millions and millions of oceans, mountains, and what to speak of living entities? Everything unlimited. The universe . . . It is also stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā, yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi (BS 5.40). In the effulgence of Brahman . . . The example is also there; it is not very difficult. Just like in the sunshine is the effulgence, shine. Sun is there, and the shining is there, but within the shining there are innumerable planets. In the daytime we cannot see, but at night we can see wherefrom these stars and planets coming. They are already there. In the sunshine, due to the bright sunshine, we cannot see them, but they are existing. As our planet is existing within the sunshine, so similarly, there are millions of planets. They are also existing. Yasya . . . Similarly, yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi. This is only universe, but these each universe, millions of universes, they are existing within the Brahman effulgence, brahma-jyoti, both spiritual and material. Everything is there.
So this is the creation of the Supreme Lord. He says,
- athavā bahunaitena
- kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna
- vistabhya aham idaṁ kṛtsnam
- ekāṁśena sthito jagat
- (BG 10.42)
"I enter into this creation." Without spiritual creation, without spiritual entities, there cannot be development of material. That is our contention, that this material world has developed because Kṛṣṇa has entered it. Anupraviṣṭaḥ, it is said here clearly. Tair avasitas tad anupraviṣṭaḥ: "Because You have entered, therefore things have developed." Aṇḍāntara-sthaṁ paramāṇu-cayāntara . . . (BS 5.35). Without spiritual touch, nothing can develop. We have got practical experience that without the spirit soul, the body cannot develop. If a dead child comes out, the body does not develop. Because the spirit soul is there . . . So this nonsense theory that "Within the womb of the mother, unless the body is developed to seven months, there is no life," what is this nonsense? The body has developed to that seven months' condition because there is a spirit soul. Otherwise how it becomes seven months' developed? You'll find this description in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Therefore the knowledge received from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is perfect. Any knowledge which does not corroborate with the knowledge in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that is useless knowledge. Therefore, in the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ satāṁ vāstava-vastu vedyam atra (SB 1.1.2). Vāstava-vastu, real knowledge. This is real knowledge. In the Bhāgavata it is said, karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantor deho upapatti (SB 3.31.1): "A living entity gets a body," upapatti, "according to karma." Everything is stated there. After sex, the living entity takes shelter within the semina and ovum of the father and mother, and it be . . . It is . . . The formation is just like a small grain. That grain develops because the spirit soul has taken shelter. Then body. It is not that the body develops automatically, and at seven months there is life. No. Life . . . The consciousness may be there. That is another . . . Consciousness . . . Sometimes, if I am surcharged with anesthetics, if I am chloroformed, my consciousness is not there. That does not mean I am not there. Consciousness sometimes may be absent. One man fainted; there is no consciousness. That does not mean there is no life. There is life. The consciousness has not developed.