These impersonal deployments are all manifestations of His energy. The Lord thus forever retains His personal aspect, despite the countless and unlimited manifestations of His impersonal energies.

The human intellect will find it very difficult to comprehend that the entire creation rests on the simple emanation of His energy. But the Lord makes us understand that although immeasurable space contains air and all atoms, and serves as a kind of support for all created things, it nevertheless exists independently of all things and remains immutable.

Similarly, Krishna, the Supreme Lord, although sustaining all things by the emanation of His energy, remains distinct and complete in Himself.

At the moment of annihilation, the entire creation merges into the spiritual body of Narayana, Krishna's plenary emanation. It is also from him that it will manifest again, and with it, intact, the destiny and nature specific to each soul.

The individual souls, distinct from God, are minute fragments, integral parts of the person of Krishna, and as such, they are qualitatively one with Him. But they are indeed distinguished from Him, because they can actively and subjectively succumb to the attraction of material creation.

The Creation of Material Elements.

When Krishna's first manifestation, Karanarnavasayi Visnu, appeared, the principle of material creation was manifested, followed by time, and then by the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature: virtue, passion, and ignorance, which represent material nature and are transformed into action.

Through the almighty power of the Supreme Lord, Krishna, the entire material creation evolves through transformation in a chain reaction process, and through this same divine almighty power, these manifestations are transformed again through the reverse process, finally returning to the spiritual body of God, where they will abide.

All material existence corresponds to a series of reactions that follow one another, and thus the notions of past, present, and future appear. This chain of cause and effect does not exist in the spiritual world, nor does the cycle of six material phases: birth, growth, stabilization, reproduction, deterioration, and annihilation.

Time, which is synonymous with material nature, corresponds to the principles of material creation, manifested after their transformation. Thus, time can be seen as the root cause of all creation. The transformation of material nature thus gives rise to material action in its various forms. The latter can be identified with the natural instinct of every living being, and even with inert objects. Then, when action has manifested, it in turn gives rise to various products and by-products of the same nature. All these manifestations have their origin in Krishna, the Supreme Lord.