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Prabhupāda:

bhāgavatārambhe vyāsa maṅgalācaraṇe 'parameśvara' nirūpila ei dui lakṣaṇe

[Cc Madhya 20.358]

[In the auspicious invocation at the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Śrīla Vyāsadeva has described the Supreme Personality of Godhead by these …

We have been discussing about the symptoms, characteristics, of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One characteristic is that is eternally …

Just like we have got also... It is very easy to understand. We have got several energies, personally. And we …

Similarly, everything is there in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Janmādy asya yataḥ [Cc Madhya 20.359].

[O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. …

The Bhāgavata explains, in the beginning of Bhāgavata, that everything has its origin from the Supreme Lord. Everything. Whatever you …

[The Supreme Absolute Truth is that from which everything is born.]

Imāni bhūtāni, all these things which are created, there is a source. That is Brahman. That is Brahman.

The Vedānta-sūtra also confirms this, janmādy asya yataḥ. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. What is Brahman? This is explained in one code …

That supreme source of everything, what is the nature of that supreme source of everything? Now the Bhāgavata says, janmādy …

So the philosophy that the supreme source is void, how you can maintain? Wherefrom this consciousness comes? They say that …

Now, He is conscious in two ways: anvayāt itarataś ca. Directly and indirectly. Just like we are also conscious, but …

In the Bhagavad-gītā, you will find that Kṛṣṇa says that vedāhaṁ samatītāni vartamānāni ca bhārata [Bg 7.26]:

[O Arjuna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I know everything that has happened in the past, all that is …

"I know everything about atītāni, what is past, everything what is past, and I know what is present, I know …

Now again, what sort of consciousness? Wherefrom He has got this consciousness? Just like we have got our consciousness from …

Wherefrom He gets knowledge? The Bhāgavata replies, svarāṭ. He's self-sufficient, full of knowledge. These are the differences.