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The difference between the Supreme Person and our personality is that He is all-powerful, we are limited. Our power is limited. Everything our, limited. Anu, prabhu. He is great; we are small

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"The difference between the Supreme Person and our personality is that He is all-powerful, we are limited. Our power is limited. Everything our, limited. Aṇu, prabhu. He is great; we are small"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Māyāvādī theory that impersonal, how it stands? Neither God is impersonal nor the living entities are impersonal. Every one of us—person. The difference between the Supreme Person and our personality is that He is all-powerful, we are limited. Our power is limited. Everything our, limited. Aṇu, prabhu. He is great; we are small. He is infinite; we are infinitesimal, very small. Otherwise, in all other qualities we are one. There is no difference. Sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs. 5.1): in eternity, in blissfulness and in knowledge. Everything is there.

Kṛṣṇa is giving more enlightenment on the living entity, soul. "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." Now, Kṛṣṇa says that, "In the past I existed. So also you. And so also all these soldiers and the kings who have assembled in this fighting. They existed in the past. For the present, there is no question of asking . . . we are existing. And in the future also, it is not that we shall not exist." That means, "We shall exist."

So what is "I," "you," and "others"? I am individual person, you are individual person, and all others, they're also, each and every one of them, individual person. So in the past we are all individuals; at present we are all individuals; and in the future also, we shall remain individual. So where there is question of merging, become one? Here Kṛṣṇa said that, "In the past we are individual person, in the present we are all individual persons, and in future also, we shall remain individuals."

So the Māyāvādī theory that impersonal, how it stands? Neither God is impersonal nor the living entities are impersonal. Every one of us—person. The difference between the Supreme Person and our personality is that He is all-powerful, we are limited. Our power is limited. Everything our, limited. Aṇu, prabhu. He is great; we are small. He is infinite; we are infinitesimal, very small. Otherwise, in all other qualities we are one. There is no difference. Sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs. 5.1): in eternity, in blissfulness and in knowledge. Everything is there.

But Kṛṣṇa's knowledge and our knowledge, different. Just like Kṛṣṇa says, imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam (BG 4.1): "I spoke this yoga system, Bhagavad-gītā, long, long ago to the sun-god." Vivasvān manave prāha: "And the sun-god explained it to his son, Manu; and Manu again, in his turn, he explained to his son, Ikṣvāku. In this way, this knowledge of Bhagavad-gītā is coming by the disciplic succession."

So Kṛṣṇa says: "I spoke." So it is millions and millions, at least, four hundred thousand millions of times, millions of years ago, according to the calculation of Manu. So Kṛṣṇa said millions and millions of years ago this Bhagavad-gītā He remembers. But Arjuna inquired from Him that, "How can I believe that You spoke this Bhagavad-gītā millions of millions years ago to sun-god, because we are contemporary?" Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, they're of . . . practically of the same age.

Page Title:The difference between the Supreme Person and our personality is that He is all-powerful, we are limited. Our power is limited. Everything our, limited. Anu, prabhu. He is great; we are small
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-02-04, 00:56:09
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1