Ātma-māyayā, internal potency. He is situated in the spiritual world by internal potency. And this is, this material world, His external potency. Therefore, although external potency is also Kṛṣṇa's potency—it is not different from Kṛṣṇa—but Kṛṣṇa is not here in the external potency. Kṛṣṇa is in the internal potency, although this potency is not different. Therefore it is inferior. It is inferior energy, it is called. And this, this is explained very nicely in the Bhagavad-gītā, mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagat avyakta-mūrtinā (BG 9.4): "By Me the whole spiritual and material world is manifested." Tatam idam. How it is manifested? Just like the sun and sunshine. Sunshine is manifested all over the universe, and sun is the central point. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa is the central point, and His shining brahma-jyotir is diffused all over.
And the part of that brahma-jyotir, when it is, I mean to say, covered by the cloud of mahat-tattva, that is called material existence. So we are in this darkness. So Kṛṣṇa says, Lord Cai . . . so His place is in the internal potency. 'Svarūpa-śakti' rūpe tāṅra haya avasthāna (CC Madhya 22.7). He is situated there in His internal potency.
- svāṁśa-vibhinnāṁśa-rūpe hañā vistāra
- ananta vaikuṇṭha-brahmāṇḍe karena vihāra
- (CC Madhya 22.8)
Now, then Kṛṣṇa, He expands Himself. Eko bahu śyāma. That is the Vedic version, "One is expanding into many." And how that many is manifested? That is explained here that, svāṁśa, vibhinnāṁśa. He expands Himself as person, Himself, and as parts. As person, Himself, that expansion is called Viṣṇu-tattva. And the vibhinnāṁśa, separated expansion, we are, living entities.
We are also expansion. The expansion of Viṣṇu-tattva is just like Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha, all the incarnation, all Viṣṇu-tattva, Rāma, Nṛsiṁha. There are so many thousands and millions of expansion, svāṁśa, personal self and separated self. We are also Kṛṣṇa's part-and parcel-expansion; therefore we have got intimate relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
- svāṁśa-vibhinnāṁśa-rūpe hañā vistāra
- ananta vaikuṇṭha-brahmāṇḍe karena vihāra
- (CC Madhya 22.8)
So Kṛṣṇa is both in the spiritual world and the material world. Because we represent Kṛṣṇa, we are in this brahmāṇḍa, conditioned. But there are many living entities who are eternally liberated. They never come to this. How it is, that? Just like the ocean and the rivers. In river, in the river, you will find fishes, and in the ocean you will find fishes. But the . . . sometimes it may be that the fishes of the river may go to the ocean, but the fishes of the ocean never comes to the river. Never comes to the river. There is no place for them. This is a crude example.
Similarly . . . and as the ocean is far, far greater than the river—thousands of rivers cannot be compared with the, I mean to say, measurement of the ocean—similarly, thousands and millions of this material world cannot be compared with the spiritual world. The spiritual world is so great that millions of material world taken together, it can be dropped into the spiritual world. It is such great. Therefore material world is called one-fourth manifestation of Kṛṣṇa's energy, and the spiritual world is called three-fourth manifestation of Kṛṣṇa's energy.