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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 5]
first-grade nonsense talk is, “It is I, it is mine.” A godless civilization is exclusively conducted by such false ideas, and such persons, without any factual realization of God, accept a false God or falsely declare themselves to be God to mislead persons who are already bewildered by the deluding energy. Those who are, however, before the Lord, and who surrender unto Him, cannot be influenced by the deluding energy; therefore they are free from the misconception of “It is I, it is mine,” and therefore they do not accept a false God or pose themselves as equal to the Supreme Lord. Identification of the bewildered person is distinctly given in this verse.
TEXT 14
द्रव्यं कर्म च कालश्च स्वभावो जीव एव च । वासुदेवात्परो ब्रह्मन्न चान्योऽर्थोऽस्ति तच्चतः॥१४॥
dravyam karma ca kālaś ca sva-bhāvo jīva eva ca vāsudevāt paro brahman na cānyo 'rtho 'sti tattvataḥ
dravyam —the ingredients (earth, water, fire, air and sky);  karma —the interaction;  ca —and;  kālaḥ —eternal time;  ca —also;  sva-bhāvaḥ —intuition or nature;  jīvaḥ —the living being;  eva —certainly;  ca —and;  vāsudevāt —from Vāsudeva;  paraḥ —differentiated parts;  brahman —O  brāhmaṇa ;  na —never;  ca —also;  anyaḥ —separate;  arthaḥ —value;  asti —there is;  tattvataḥ —in truth.
TRANSLATION
The five elementary ingredients of creation, the interaction thereof set up by eternal time, and the intuition or nature of the individual living beings are all differentiated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, and in truth there is no other value in them.
PURPORT
This phenomenal world is impersonally the representation of Vāsudeva because the ingredients of its creation, their interaction and the enjoyer of