SB 10.13.39
naite suresa rsayo na caite
tvam eva bhasisa bhid-asraye ’pi
sarvam prthak tvam nigamat katham vadety
uktena vrttam prabhuna balo ’vait
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:
Lord Baladeva said, “O supreme controller! These boys are not great demigods, as I previously thought. Nor are these calves great sages like Narada. Now I can see that You alone are manifesting Yourself in all varieties of difference. Although one, You are existing in the different forms of the calves and boys. Please briefly explain this to Me.” Having thus been requested by Lord Baladeva, Krsna explained the whole situation, and Baladeva understood it.
Purport by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:
Inquiring from Krsna about the actual situation, Lord Balarama said, “My dear Krsna, in the beginning I thought that all these cows, calves and cowherd boys were either great sages and saintly persons or demigods, but at the present it appears that they are actually Your expansions. They are all You; You Yourself are playing as the calves and cows and boys. What is the mystery of this situation? Where have those other calves and cows and boys gone? And why are You expanding Yourself as the cows, calves and boys? Will You kindly tell Me what is the cause?” At the request of Balarama, Krsna briefly explained the whole situation: how the calves and boys were stolen by Brahma and how He was concealing the incident by expanding Himself so that people would not know that the original cows, calves and boys were missing. Balarama understood, therefore, that this was not maya but Krsna’s opulence. Krsna has all opulences, and this was but another opulence of Krsna.
“At first,” Lord Balarama said, “I thought that these boys and calves were a display of the power of great sages like Narada, but now I see that all these boys and calves are You.” After inquiring from Krsna, Lord Balarama understood that Krsna Himself had become many. That the Lord can do this is stated in the Brahma-samhita (5.33). Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam: although He is one, He can expand Himself in so many forms. According to the Vedic version, ekam bahu syam: He can expand Himself into many thousands and millions but still remain one. In that sense, everything is spiritual because everything is an expansion of Krsna; that is, everything is an expansion either of Krsna Himself or of His potency. Because the potency is nondifferent from the potent, the potency and the potent are one (sakti-saktimatayor abhedah). The Mayavadis, however, say, cid-acit-samanvayah: spirit and matter are one. This is a wrong conception. Spirit (cit) is different from matter (acit), as explained by Krsna Himself in Bhagavad-gita (7.4-5):
bhumir apo ’nalo vayuh
kham mano buddhir eva ca
ahankara itiyam me
bhinna prakrtir astadha
apareyam itas tv anyam
prakrtim viddhi me param
jiva-bhutam maha-baho
yayedam dharyate jagat
“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego all together these eight comprise My separated material energies. But besides this inferior nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is a superior energy of Mine, which consists of all living entities who are struggling with material nature and are sustaining the universe.” Spirit and matter cannot be made one, for actually they are superior and inferior energies, yet the Mayavadis, or Advaita-vadis, try to make them one. This is wrong. Although spirit and matter ultimately come from the same one source, they cannot be made one. For example, there are many things that come from our bodies, but although they come from the same source, they cannot be made one. We should be careful to note that although the supreme source is one, the emanations from this source should be separately regarded as inferior and superior. The difference between the Mayavada and Vaisnava philosophies is that the Vaisnava philosophy recognizes this fact. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s philosophy, therefore, is called acintya-bhedabheda simultaneous oneness and difference. For example, fire and heat cannot be separated, for where there is fire there is heat and where there is heat there is fire. Nonetheless, although we cannot touch fire, heat we can tolerate. Therefore, although they are one, they are different.