SB 7.9.47 The vision of devotion reveals how the Lord pervades everything and yet transceds everything

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our journey towards Krishna. Thank you. So here Prahlad Maharaj is urging through this prayer all of us to see the world with the eyes of knowledge and to see how Krishna pervades everything.
Just as fire pervades wood, but that pervasion is not visible to the naked eye nor to the technological eye directly. What it needs is a process of transformation that for that fire to become manifest when there is a pre-existing flame and that is lit, then the fire becomes manifest. So similarly, when we get devotion by associating with devotees and then bring that devotional vision to bear while seeing the things of the world, then we will see, रुपेइ इमे सदस्थितववेद सुष्टे So actually, all the forms of this world, सद अ सद, they are cause and effect.
So at a material level, a flower or a fruit or a tree has its cause in a seed, बीजां कुराव. So, but there is the perennial philosophical question which came for the chicken or the egg, which came for the seed or the tree. So the answer for this is not to be found at the material level, because at the material level things are cyclic and the cycle in and of itself depends on the pre-existing stage within the cycle to continue.
So, cyclic things which are mutually sustaining, need to be started by an agent outside of that cycle and that agent is a transcendental lord. So he, by his vision, by सह एक्षितः, he activates creation and by his expansion he pervades creation. So here, अरूपकस्य, he says, we see the rupas in this world, but the lord is अरूपकस्य.
Now, the impersonalist may pounce on this word and say, see, even a devotee like Prahlad is saying that the lord is without form. But actually speaking, it’s very clear that Prahlad Maharaj is speaking this prayer to a person who is in front of him and he has not referred that there is some higher reality beyond you, O Lord Narasimhadev, which I am worshipping. He is offering the prayers directly to Narasimhadev.
So, the अरूपकस्य doesn’t mean no forms, but actually Prabhupada translates it as of you who possess no material form. So, we may wonder how, and अरूपकस्य fits into the context very well, because there are forms in this world. If there are no forms in transcendence, how would the forms of this world manifest? Where would they come from? And if the lord had a form like ours, then that form would not be able to pervade all other forms.
So, the अरूपकस्य indicates that your form is different. I can see your form, my dear lord, right in front of me, but your form is different from the forms of everything else in the world. Just as you were present in the pillar from which you burst forth to deliver me and to deliver my father, similarly you pervade everything else.
So, he is repeating here with a more philosophical perspective, what he told Hiranyakashipu, the lord is everywhere and then he says that this understanding of everywhere is युक्तः समक्षं उभ्यत्रविचक्षन्तेत्वाम् So, actually one can see this only by practicing devotional service, युक्तः. So, we can theoretically understand that the lord pervades everything by studying scriptures, but by living scriptures we get realization of how Krishna pervades everything. And then we also understand that Krishna exists beyond everything in his personal glory as the all-attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead and that is the vision of supreme love.
We love everything because Krishna pervades it and yet we love Krishna himself who is beyond everything.