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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 4, Ch. 28 ]
Society, friendship, love and well-wishers are all simply results of being packed in different bodies. One should know this well and try to get out of this bodily encagement into which one is thrown birth after birth. One should take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, and return home, back to Godhead.
TEXT 61
माया ह्येषा मया सृष्टा यत्पुमांसं स्त्रियं सतीम् ।
मन्यसे नोमयं यद्धे हंसौ पश्यावयोर्गतिम् ॥६१॥
māyā hy eṣā mayā sṛṣṭā yat pumāṁsaṁ striyaṁ satīm manyase nobhayaṁ yad vai haṁsau paśyāvayor gatim
māyā—illusory energy; hi—certainly; eṣā—this; mayā—by Me; sṛṣṭā—created; yat—from which; pumāṁsaṁ—a male; striyaṁ—a female; satīm—chaste; manyase—you think; na—not; ubhayaṁ—both; yat—because; vai—certainly; haṁsau—freed from material contamination; paśya—just see; āvayoḥ—our; gatim—factual position.
TRANSLATION
Sometimes you think yourself a man, sometimes a chaste woman, and sometimes a neutral eunuch. This is all because of the body, which is created by the illusory energy. This illusory energy is My potency, and actually both of us—you and I—are pure spiritual identities. Now just try to understand this. I am trying to explain our factual position.
PURPORT
The factual position of both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entity is qualitatively one. The Supreme Lord is the Supreme Spirit, the Supersoul, and the living entity is the individual spiritual soul. Even though both of them are original spiritual identities, the living entity forgets his identity when he comes in contact with material nature and becomes conditioned. At such a time he identifies himself as a product of the material nature. Because of the material body, he forgets that he is the eternal ( sanātana ) part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.