Although the Lord has no material form, as declared in the previous verse, He is the source of the material manifestation. Having originated from the energy of the Lord, the material creation is in one sense a manifestation of the Lord, and thus yogis who are not capable of conceiving His personal form are advised to meditate on the universe as a form of the Lord, with the higher planets forming His head, the sun and moon His eyes, the Vedas as His speech, etc.
This understanding also helps us to realize how everything is connected with the Lord and how everything comes from Him. It is also a way to facilitate our meditation on Him, seeing the Lord everywhere we look. When we can perfectly understand the concept of the universal form, we can, literally, see the Lord anywhere we look.
At the same time, however, the universal form is more or less imaginary, since, as declared, the Lord has no material form.
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