DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPIRITUAL & MATERIAL WORLDS!

SRILA PRABHUPADA SAYS: 

“The ‘Isopanisad’ explains: “Whatever we see, whether animate or inanimate,  is controlled by the Supreme Lord”. 

Lord Krsna says the same thing in the Bhagavad-gita (9.10): “My energies are managing everything”. 

And the Visnu Purana confirms:  “eka-desa-sthitasyagner jyotsna vistarini yatha:   that means : As heat and light are distributed all around by a fire situated in one place, so the whole creation is a manifestation of energies expanded from the Supreme Lord." 

For example, The sun is in one place, but it is distributing its heat and light all over the universe. Similarly, the Supreme Lord is distributing His material and spiritual energies all over the creation. The spiritual energy is present in this temporary material world, but it is covered by the material energy. For example, the sun is always shining in the sky--no one can stop the sun from shining--but it is sometimes covered by a cloud. When this happens, the sunshine on the ground is dim. The more the sun is covered, the dimmer the sunlight. But this covering of the sun is partial. All the sunshine cannot be covered; that is not possible. An insignificant portion of the sunshine may be covered by a cloud.

Similarly, this material world is an insignificant portion of the spiritual world that is covered by the material energy.”

My Note:  We are actually spritual souls, but as we have been covered by material attachments, ie, contaminations, we have temporarily forgotten our real position! Similarly, this material world is also a portion of spiritual world, but covered by material energy.