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So if we understand Krsna as a human being like us, avajananti mam mūḍhaḥ [Bg 9.11], then we are mūḍhas. "Krsna is also... Krsna's body is made of these maya elements, or external elements, like us," just like our body is made of these material elements. If we think Krsna also made of that elements, of these material elements, ksitir apo 'nalo vayuḥ, then we are mistaken. Krsna is... Here, in the previous verse, we have learned: atma-mayaya. There are... Of course, this material energy is also atma-maya, Krsna's. Not ours. Mama maya. Krsna says, mama maya. Daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya [Bg 7.14]. (More...)

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So originally everything is coming from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore Krsna, simplifying the matter and informing us, "You fools, you try to understand," aham sarvasya prabhavaḥ [Bg 10.8], "I am the origin." And Vedanta-sūtra says that janmady asya yataḥ. Janma adi, from whom, that is Brahman. That is Krsna. Janma, this janma, or the creation of this material cosmic manifestation, phenomenal world, that who is the cause of janma? The cause is Krsna. Aham adir hi devanam [Bg 10.2]. Then He is the cause of Brahma, devanam, Siva. Padma-palasa-locana, padma, padma-nabha. Therefore Visnu's another name is Padmanabha. Padmanabha, He causes the lotus flower from His navel, and there is Brahma. And then Brahma creates whole universe. The original creator is bhagavad-virya-coditat, not this material. The material, there was no existence of the material. The materials are created by the supreme living being, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam [Katha Upanisad ]. (More...)

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