The material cause of a universe is god, the lower nature and the higherd nature of god. When you experience this universe right now, you are experiencing god in the form of space and air and fire and water and earth. You are experiencing god as the self shining consciousness which you think yourself to be. All of this is nothing other than the material cause of this universe, which is god. It is in this sense that god pervades the universe. So just as the material continue in the effect, i repeat, the material, cause continues in the effect.
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 7 (Verses 6-7) of the Bhagavad Gita. In this series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of the Bhagavad Gita (The Song of God).