So We have been discussing about the symptoms, characteristics, of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One characteristic is that is eternally constant, or present with Him, and another characteristic is that it is sometimes manifested, sometimes not manifested. These two characteristics are called the superior energy and the inferior energy. Manifestation of the superior energy is always constant, present in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And manifestation of the inferior energy, that is not always present. It is sometimes manifested, sometimes not manifested.
Just like we have got also . . . it is very easy to understand. We have got several energies, personally. And we have got some mean energy also that is within us. That is not always manifested. Sometimes I commit theft. That is my energy. That is my energy, but it is not always manifested. This is a crude example.
Similarly, everything is there in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Janmādy asya yataḥ (CC Madhya 20.359).
The Bhāgavata explains, in the beginning of Bhāgavata, that everything has its origin from the Supreme Lord. Everything. Whatever you have got, it has its origin from the Supreme Lord. And that is also confirmed in other Vedic literature. Yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante (Taittirīya Upaniṣad 3.1). Imāni bhūtāni, all these things which are created, there is a source. That is Brahman. That is Brahman.
The Vedānta-sūtra also confirms this, janmādy asya yataḥ. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. What is Brahman? This is explained in one code word, janmādy asya yataḥ: Brahman is that from whom everything is emanating. That's all. Brahman is that from whom, or from which—whatever you like—everything is emanated. So that supreme source, summum bonum of everything, is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāṭ.
That supreme source of everything, what is the nature of that supreme source of everything? Now the Bhāgavata says, janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca arthesu abhijñaḥ. He is conscious.