Why does Prabhupada say that “Consideration of the Paramātmā and impersonal Brahman arose after the creation; before the creation, only the Supreme Personality of Godhead existed.” in Bhag 6.4.47 purport?

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This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors. question why does Prabhupada say in the purport 6447 that the consideration of the Brahman and the Paramatma features arose after the material creation began answer both the Brahman and Paramatma features are aspects of the absolute truth that are in a sense eternal the material creation is eternal so the Paramatma conception is also eternal and there is a Brahma Jyoti that is also eternal however what Prabhupada is referring to here is not those features themselves but the consideration of those features that means that in the material existence when people who are living materialistic life start thinking about the higher spiritual realities of life then their consideration of the absolute truth proceeds by negation of material conceptions so that’s why they first think about the spiritual reality primarily as non-material they see material things as having form having variety having quality having activity and therefore they conceive the spiritual the spiritual substance as having no form no quality no reality no variety sorry no reality no variety no activity so this is the brahman conception so it is basically founded on material conception of things just the it is based on negating the material however spiritual reality is not just a negation of material reality it is an independent higher reality of which the material reality is a reflection so that’s why when people think of spirituality as primarily referring to a negation of material reality then they think of it in terms of the quality less brahman so here Srila Prabhupada is referring that the consideration of the brahman aspects begins with begins after the material creation has been going on so similarly the paramatma aspect is primarily the feature of god who is in charge of the material world so when people look at this world and think that things are happening in a proper designed way in this world then they conceive that the world is that the world is having a designer a controller so in the and then they come to the aspect of god who is brahman sorry who is paramatma the controller of the world so in the Bhagavad Sandarbha Jivdoswami explains how the absolute truth is progressively conceived by the transcendent truth so when the absolute truth is conceived without any potencies at all that is the brahman aspect when the absolute truth is conveyed is conceived with material potencies that is the paramatma aspect that means in the paramatma feature the yogi don’t think of the paramatma as having his own pastimes in the spiritual world they think of the paramatma as primarily the controller of the material world so that is the paramatma feature the absolute truth with material potencies and the absolute truth with material and spiritual potencies is Bhagavan and that is in the spiritual world so when there is no material creation and there is only the spiritual reality at that time there is no other there is no need for anyone to contemplate on the Brahman and Paramatma the eternal residence of the spiritual world they can contemplate only on the Bhagavan aspect and that’s why it is said over here that conception of the consideration of the Brahman and Paramatma begin after