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Nature, the Eniover, and Consciousness
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will be clarified. But one should be careful not to consider the Supreme Personality of Godhead in every body and individual soul to be the  jīva . This is something like equalizing the potent and the impotent.
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ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक् । ब्रह्मसूत्रपदैश्चैव हेतुमद्भिर्विनिश्चितैः ॥ ५ ॥
ŗṣibhir bahudhā gītaṁ chandobhir vividhaih pṛthak brahma-sūtra-padaiś caiva hetumadbhir viniścitaih
ṛṣibhiḥ —by the wise sages;  bahudhā —in many ways;  gītam —described;  chandobhiḥ —Vedic hymns;  vividhaiḥ —in various;  pṛthak —variously;  brahma-sūtra —the Vedānta;  padaiḥ —aphorism;  ca —also;  eva —certainly;  hetumadbhiḥ —with cause and effect;  viniścitaiḥ —ascertain.
TRANSLATION
That knowledge of the field of activities and of the knower of activities is described by various sages in various Vedic writings—especially in the Vedānta-sūtra—and is presented with all reasoning as to cause and effect.
PURPORT
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the highest authority in explaining this knowledge. Still, as a matter of course, learned scholars and standard authorities always give evidence from previous authorities. Kṛṣṇa is explaining this most controversial point regarding the duality and non-duality of the soul and the Supersoul by referring to Scriptures, the  Vedānta , which are accepted as authority. First, He says, this is according to different sages. As far as the sages are concerned, besides Himself, Vyāsadeva, the author of the  Vedānta-sūtra , is a great sage, and in the  Vedānta-sūtra  duality is perfectly explained. And Vyāsadeva’s father, Parāśara, was also a great sage, and he writes in his books of religiosity: “ aham tvaṁ ca athānye . . . ” “We—you, I and various other living entities—are all transcendental, although in material bodies. Now we are fallen into the ways of the