Satsvarupa Brahmacari Caitanya-caritamrta, Morning Lecture Notes 1966

The Absolute Truth is one, but seen differently according to a person’s capacity.  There are three aspects of the Absolute Truth.  One is Brahman, which is like the rays of the sun.  (After the lecture, we devotees discussed what he said, and there was confusion and disagreement about the word that sounds like Brahma.  So we asked Swamiji in his room.  He made it clear.  There are three words that sound alike.  I think I’ve got them right.  Brahma is the name of the demigod, Lord Brahma.  Brahman is the impersonal feature of the Absolute, the rays.  And a brahmin is the higher class person who knows the Vedas.)

Someone may say the sun is just fire, but it is a planet containing varieties of life.  Vedic literature says every planet has variegated life.  On the sun, the fiery element is prominent.  The living entities are made of fire.

The original effulgence is from Krishna.  That Brahman effulgence contains all the spiritual planets.  We cannot study even a millionth of His energy.  It is futile to deny Krishna because we cannot estimate His energies.

The Brahman effulgence is without transcendental bliss.  It is the eternal aspect.  Peaceful santa-rasa.  Krishna says I’ve described in a nutshell some of My potencies, but you can know by one part of My energy I sustain all the universes; and I’m in the hearts of all living entities.