Krsna is Supreme Spirit. Therefore we are one in quality, but Krsna is the Supreme

Expressions researched:
"Kṛṣṇa is Supreme Spirit. Therefore we are one in quality, but Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme"

Lectures

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures

There is no answer for this question from the impersonalists' school. But real fact is that the Supreme never falls down. The part and parcel of the Supreme, they fall down—some of them—not all. So therefore the living entities, they are different from the Supreme. They are one in quality with the Supreme, but not in quantity.

670111 - Lecture CC Madhya 22.21-28 - New York

They cannot give any answer that, "Why you have become under the influence of ignorance? If you are the Supreme, then what is the cause that you have become conditioned? Then the Supreme . . . it become conditioned under the material nature. Then how one can become the Supreme? Supreme cannot be conditioned."

So there is no answer for this question from the impersonalists' school. But real fact is that the Supreme never falls down. The part and parcel of the Supreme, they fall down—some of them—not all. So therefore the living entities, they are different from the Supreme. They are one in quality with the Supreme, but not in quantity.

So Lord Caitanya says that, "Simply by thinking that 'I am not this matter; I am spirit soul, ahaṁ brahmāsmi, I am Brahman,' that will not help you to get liberation." The real fact is that the individual living entities, they are part and parcel of the Supreme, but somehow or other, they wanted separation from the Supreme and wanted to lord it over the material nature.

Festival Lectures

This Dvaitavāda philosophy is perfect, acintya-bhedābheda, simultaneously one and different. We have got . . . because we are spiritual energy, therefore . . . Kṛṣṇa is Supreme Spirit. Therefore we are one in quality, but Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. Aṇor aṇīyān mahataḥ. He's mahato mahīyān, and we are aṇor aṇīyān. We are smaller than the smallest. This relationship with Kṛṣṇa is perfect. If we had been actually God, then why we are fallen? This is not possible. God is God. He's never . . . God's name is Acyuta. He never falls down. But jīva-bhūta, jīva, living entities, they are cyuta. They falls down from the spiritual platform to the material platform.

740811 - Lecture Festival BG 07.05, Appearance Day, Sri Krsna, Janmastami - Vrndavana

Education means to understand. Jñānī. Educate . . . educated means wise man, educated man, jñānī. The actual jñānī means māṁ prapadyate. Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate (BG 7.19). That is education. The education does not mean to become atheist: "There is no God," "I am God, you are God, everyone is God." This is not education; this is ajñāna. The Māyāvādīs, they think that they have become one with God. That is not education. That is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: ye 'nye 'ravindākṣa vimukta-māninaḥ. They are thinking that they have become liberated, but actually, aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ (SB 10.2.32), their intelligence is not purified. Therefore falsely claiming. If one is God, then how he has become dog? This much common sense there is not. God is God; dog is dog. This Dvaitavāda philosophy is perfect, acintya-bhedābheda, simultaneously one and different. We have got . . . because we are spiritual energy, therefore . . . Kṛṣṇa is Supreme Spirit. Therefore we are one in quality, but Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. Aṇor aṇīyān mahataḥ. He's mahato mahīyān, and we are aṇor aṇīyān. We are smaller than the smallest. This relationship with Kṛṣṇa is perfect. If we had been actually God, then why we are fallen? This is not possible. God is God. He's never . . . God's name is Acyuta. He never falls down. But jīva-bhūta, jīva, living entities, they are cyuta. They falls down from the spiritual platform to the material platform.