Bhagavad Gita As It Is

References to text BG 7.4
BG 7.4: Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego – all together these eight constitute My separated material energies.

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“ ‘The potency of Lord Viṣṇu is summarized in three categories — namely, the spiritual potency, the living entities and ignorance. The spiritual potency is full of knowledge; the living entities, although belonging to the spiritual potency, are subject to bewilderment; and the third energy, which is full of ignorance, is always visible in fruitive activities.’
Lord Caitanya in Five Features
CC 1.7.119
“The theory of illusion can be applied only when the living entity identifies himself with the body. As far as the cosmic manifestation is concerned, it cannot be called false, although it is certainly temporary.
The Liberation of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya
CC 2.6.173
“The mahā-bhāgavata, the advanced devotee, certainly sees everything mobile and immobile, but he does not exactly see their forms. Rather, everywhere he immediately sees manifest the form of the Supreme Lord.”
Talks Between Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Ramananda Raya
CC 2.8.274
“To impregnate with the seeds of the living entities, the Lord Himself does not directly touch the material energy, but by His specific functional expansion He touches the material energy, and thus the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, are impregnated into material nature.
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Instructs Sanatana Gosvami in the Science of the Absolute Truth
CC 2.20.273