3.71
’anga’-sabde amsa kahe, seho satya haya
maya-karya nahe--saba cid-ananda-maya
SYNONYMS
anga-sabde—by the word anga; amsa—plenary portion; kahe—one means; seho—that; satya—the truth; haya—is; maya—of the material energy; karya—the work; nahe—is not; saba—all; cit-ananda-maya—full of knowledge and bliss.
The word “anga” indeed refers to plenary portions.
Such manifestations should never be considered products of material nature, for they are all transcendental, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
PURPORT
In the material world, if a fragment is taken from an original object, the original object is reduced by the removal of that fragment.
But the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not at all affected by the actions of maya.
The Isopanisad says:
om purnam adah purnam idam
purnat purnam udacyate
purnasya purnam adaya
purnam evavasisyate “The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes.
Whatever is produced of the complete whole is also complete in itself.
Because He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.” (Sri Isopanisad, Invocation) In the realm of the Absolute, one plus one equals one, and one minus one equals one.
Therefore one should not conceive of a fragment of the Supreme Lord in the material sense.
In the spiritual world there is no influence of the material energy or material calculations of fragments.
In the Fifteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that the living entities are His parts and parcels.
There are innumerable living entities throughout the material and spiritual universes, but still Lord Krsna is full in Himself.
To think that God has lost His personality because His many parts and parcels are distributed all over the universe is an illusion.
That is a material calculation.
Such calculations are possible only under the influence of the material energy, maya.
In the spiritual world the material energy is conspicuous only by its absence.
In the category of visnu-tattva there is no loss of power from one expansion to the next, any more than there is a loss of illumination as one candle kindles another.
Thousands may be kindled by an original candle, and all will have the same candle power.
In this way it is to be understood that although all the visnu-tattvas, from Krsna and Lord Caitanya to Rama, Nrsimha, Varaha and so on, appear with different features in different ages, all are equally invested with supreme potency.
Demigods such as Lord Brahma and Lord Siva come in contact with the material energy, and their power and potency are therefore of different gradations.
All the incarnations of Visnu, however, are equal in potency, for the influence of maya cannot even approach Them.