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If I am one with the Supreme, how I have fallen in this condition? No. I am not one. I am one in quality, small particle

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"If I am one with the Supreme, how I have fallen in this condition? No. I am not one. I am one in quality, small particle"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Those who are devotees, fully engaged in the service of the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, mat-pāda-sevā abhiratāḥ—abhi means constantly, and ratāḥ means attached, abhiratāḥ—they do not think like that. They do not like that nonsense idea that, "I shall become one with . . ." How it is? If I am one with the Supreme, how I have fallen in this condition? No. I am not one. I am one in quality, small particle. We have explained several times that we are also constitutionally the same spirit identity as God is. But we are aṁśa. Just like gold mine and a small particle of gold. You can say, "This is gold," and the gold in the mine, big mine, many millions of tons of gold . . . quality is the same.

Those who are devotees, fully engaged in the service of the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, mat-pāda-sevā abhiratāḥ—abhi means constantly, and ratāḥ means attached, abhiratāḥ—they do not think like that. They do not like that nonsense idea that, "I shall become one with . . ." How it is? If I am one with the Supreme, how I have fallen in this condition? No. I am not one. I am one in quality, small particle. We have explained several times that we are also constitutionally the same spirit identity as God is. But we are aṁśa. Just like gold mine and a small particle of gold. You can say, "This is gold," and the gold in the mine, big mine, many millions of tons of gold . . . quality is the same. A drop of seawater and the vast sea, the chemical composition is the same, the drop of water, but you cannot say that this small particle or drop of water is equal to the sea. That is nonsense. That is nonsense. That means less intelligent. Less intelligence.

So those who are less intelligence, they want to become one. But those who are actually in knowledge, for them it is said, na ekātmatāṁ spṛhayanti. They never even desire that, "I shall become one with . . ." That is śuddha-bhakta. Just like one gentleman was speaking that "Even the Māyāvādīs, they worship sometimes Lord Viṣṇu." Yes, they do. That is . . . they do not actually believe in the form of Viṣṇu, but they take it as a means, a imagination, to imagine the form of Viṣṇu. This is Māyāvāda philosophy.

Page Title:If I am one with the Supreme, how I have fallen in this condition? No. I am not one. I am one in quality, small particle
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-05-20, 15:52:22
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1