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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 25]
Spirit. Two words in this verse are to be particularly noted. One is  nirantaram , which means nondifferent or of the same quality. The individual soul is also expressed here as  aṇimānam .  Aṇimānam  means infinitesimal. The Supreme Spirit is all-pervading, but the very small spirit is the individual soul.  Akhaṇḍitam  means not exactly fragmented but constitutionally always infinitesimal. No one can separate the molecular parts of the sunshine from the sun, but at the same time the molecular part of the sunshine is not as expansive as the sun itself. Similarly, the living entity, by its constitutional position, is qualitatively the same as the Supreme Spirit, but it is very infinitesimal.
TEXT 18
ज्ञानवैराग्ययुक्तेन भक्तियुक्तेन चात्मना । परिपश्यत्युदासीनं प्रकृतिं च हतौजसम् ॥१८॥
jñāna-vairāgya-yuktena   bhakti-yuktena cātmanā   paripaśyaty udāsīnam   prakṛtim ca hataujasam
jñāna —knowledge;  vairāgya —renunciation;  yuktena —equipped with;  bhakti —devotional service;  yuktena —equipped with;  ca —and;  ātmanā —by the mind;  paripaśyati —one sees;  udāsīnam —indifferent;  prakṛtim —material existence;  ca —and;  hata-ojasam —reduced in strength.
TRANSLATION
In that position of self-realization, by practice of knowledge and renunciation in devotional service, one sees everything in the right perspective; he becomes indifferent to material existence, and the material influence acts less powerfully upon him.
PURPORT
As the contamination of the germs of a particular disease can influence a weaker person, similarly the influence of material nature or illusory energy can act on the weaker or conditioned soul but not on the liberated soul. Self-realization is the position of the liberated state. One understands his constitutional position by knowledge and  vairāgya , renunciation. With-