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Brahmā Stealing the Boys and Calves
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though the supreme source is one, the emanations from this source should be separately regarded as inferior and superior. The difference between the Māyāvāda and Vaiṣṇava philosophies is that the Vaiṣṇava philosophy recognizes this fact. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's philosophy, therefore, is called  acintya-bhedābheda —simultaneous oneness and difference. For example, fire and heat cannot be separated, for where there is fire there is heat and where there is heat there is fire. Nonetheless, although we cannot touch fire, heat we can tolerate. Therefore, although they are one, they are different.
TEXT 40
तावदेत्यात्मभूरात्ममानेन श्रुत्यनेहसा । पुरोवदाब्दं क्रीडन्तं ददृशे सकलं हरिम् ॥४०॥
tāvad etyātmabhūr ātma- mānena truṭy-anehasā purovad ābdam krīḍantam dadṛśe sa-kalam harim
tāvat—for so long; etya—after returning; ātma-bhūḥ—Lord Brahmā; ātma-mānena—by his (Brahmā's) own measurement; truṭi-anehasā—by a moment's time; puraḥ-vat—just as previously; ā-abdam—for one year (by human measurement of time); krīḍantam—playing; dadṛśe—he saw; sa-kalam—along with His expansions; harim—Lord Hari (Śrī Kṛṣṇa).
TRANSLATION
When Lord Brahmā returned after a moment of time had passed (according to his own measurement), he saw that although by human measurement a complete year had passed, Lord Kṛṣṇa, after all that time, was engaged just as before in playing with the boys and calves, who were His expansions.
PURPORT
Lord Brahmā had gone away for only a moment of his time, but when he returned, a year of human time had passed. On different planets, the