How can any energy of Krishna be inferior?
From: Latha M
“This material world is the manifestation of the inferior energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” BG 9.8
how can lords energy be inferior? He is supreme and everything about the lord is superior. can you please clarify this doubt .
Transcript
This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
thank you how can anything connected with the lord be inferior? the lord is supreme and therefore shouldn’t all his energies be superior? answer yes the lord is definitely supreme and everything connected with him is special because of that connection but that doesn’t mean that everything has all the attributes that are present in the lord the word inferior which Prabhupada uses to describe the material energy is actually based on a word used by Krishna himself in the Bhagavad Gita in 7.4 and 5 Krishna describes his material energy and spiritual energy so 7.4 lists the material elements bhumira, pauna, lovayu, earth, water fire, air, ether, mind, illusions and ego and then in the next verse 7.5 he describes apareyam itas tvanyam prakritim viddhime param so this is apara prakriti he says, that means what was described in 7.4 and now I’ll describe the para prakriti viddhime param jivabhutam mahabaho and he refers to the jivabhutas, the living entities so the material energy is called as apara or inferior because it is lacking in consciousness the spiritual energy is called as para because it is conscious and this is this sort of terminology is even used in the Upanishads where paravidya and aparavidya is talked about paravidya is transcendental knowledge aparavidya is lower knowledge, it is knowledge about the material world so the point is not that the connection with the lord makes the origination from the lord makes everything equally great what is originated from the lord is also important so the material energy which is originated from the lord does not have the property of consciousness that’s why when compared to the other energy that is originated from the lord that is the spiritual energy which has consciousness this energy is considered to be inferior thank you