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Entanglement in Fruitive Activities
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similarly has the gigantic body of the universe. The individual body is temporary; similarly, the entire universe, which is considered to be the body of the Supreme Lord, is also temporary, and both the individual and universal bodies are products of the  mahat-tattva . One has to understand the differences with intelligence. Everyone knows that his material body has developed from a spiritual spark, and similarly the universal body has developed from the supreme spark, Supersoul. As the individual body develops from the individual soul, so the gigantic body of the universe develops from the Supreme Soul. Just as the individual soul has consciousness, so the Supreme Soul is also conscious. But although there is a similarity between the consciousness of the Supreme Soul and the consciousness of the individual soul, the individual soul's consciousness is limited, whereas the consciousness of the Supreme Soul is unlimited. This is described in  Bhagavad-gītā .  Kṣetrajñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi  (Bg. 13.3): the Supersoul is present in every field of activity, just as the individual soul is present in the individual body. Both of them are conscious. The difference is that the individual soul is conscious of the individual body only, whereas the Supersoul is conscious of the total number of individual bodies.
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एतद्वै श्रद्धया भक्त्या योगाभ्यासेन नित्यशः ।
समाहितात्मा निःसङ्गो विरक्त्या परिपश्यति ॥३०॥
etad vai śraddhayā bhaktyā  
 yogābhyāsena nityaśaḥ  
 samāhitātmā niḥsaṅgo  
 viraktyā paripaśyati
etat —this;  vai —certainly;  śraddhayā —with faith;  bhaktyā —by devotional service;  yoga-abhyāsena —by practice of  yoga ;  nityaśaḥ —always;  samāhitātmā —he whose mind is fixed;  niḥsaṅgaḥ —aloof from material association;  viraktyā —by detachment;  paripaśyati —understands.
TRANSLATION
This perfect knowledge can be achieved by a person who is already engaged in devotional service with faith, steadiness and full detachment, and who is always absorbed in thought of the Supreme. He is aloof from material association.