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What is the difference between Supersoul and individual soul? One is very small, minute, and the other is very big. God is great

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What is the difference between Supersoul and individual soul? One is very small, minute, and the other is very big. God is great. Aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.20): God is greater than the greatest. You can conceive, in your idea, the greatness of something, but God is still greater. And you can conceive the smallest—just like the atom—yet God is smaller than the atom. That is God. Not that He's only the great, but He is the smallest also. Aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān. Mahato mahīyān means greater than the greatest, and aṇor aṇīyān, and smaller than the smallest. We cannot imagine the dimension of the atom, or you can imagine, but still God is smaller than that. This is the position of God.

Just like in your body, you are present, as I was going to explain, dehino 'smin yathā dehe (BG 2.13). Asmin dehe, within this body, there is the proprietor of the body, the soul. Similarly, this gigantic body of universe, cosmic manifestation, there is the Supersoul, therefore it is working. Just like in your body or in my body, because the soul is there, therefore it is active, it is moving. Similarly, this gigantic universal body there is God, Supersoul. Two kinds of soul: one Supersoul and one individual soul. We are living entities, we are individuals, and God is Supersoul.

What is the difference between Supersoul and individual soul? One is very small, minute, and the other is very big. God is great. Aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.20): God is greater than the greatest. You can conceive, in your idea, the greatness of something, but God is still greater.

And you can conceive the smallest—just like the atom—yet God is smaller than the atom. That is God. Not that He's only the great, but He is the smallest also. Aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān. Mahato mahīyān means greater than the greatest, and aṇor aṇīyān, and smaller than the smallest. We cannot imagine the dimension of the atom, or you can imagine, but still God is smaller than that. This is the position of God.

So He has got His form, as the atom has got form. Similarly, within the atom, God has got form, and as this whole universe has got form, the God has also got form. When there is a statement in the Vedic language that God has no form, it does not mean God has no form, but He has form which you cannot imagine. That is called formless. Actually God is not formless, but what is that form, you cannot imagine, because He is greater than the greatest and the smaller than the smallest.

So, you can imagine great, the great, this universe, the sky, millions and millions of miles spread. The scientists say that to go the topmost planet of this universe, it will take forty thousands of years in the light-year speed. But you can see there are so many planets. Just like you are trying to go to the moon planet, similarly there are other planets, but you cannot go. It is so big, beyond your reach.

Page Title:What is the difference between Supersoul and individual soul? One is very small, minute, and the other is very big. God is great
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-11-30, 15:16:03.000
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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