Text 21] What Prahāda Learned in the Womb
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of the gigantic cosmic manifestation. This is confirmed in the  Vedas .  Yasmin dyauḥ pṛthivī cāntarikṣam. Vijñātāram adhikena vijānīyāt. Ekam evādvitīyam. Ātma-jyotiḥ samrāḍ ihovāca. Sa imān lokān asṛjata. Satyam jñānam anantam. Asaṅgo hy ayam puruṣaḥ. Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate.  All these Vedic injunctions prove that both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the minute soul are individual. One is great, and the other is small, but both of them are the cause of all causes—the corporally limited and the universally unlimited.
We should always remember that although we are equal to the Supreme Personality of Godhead in quality, we are never equal to Him in quantity. Persons with a small fund of intelligence, finding themselves equal in quality with God, foolishly think that they are equal in quantity also. Their intelligence is called  aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ —unpolished or contaminated intelligence. When such persons, after endeavoring hard for many, many lives to understand the supreme cause, are finally in actual knowledge of Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva, they surrender unto Him ( vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ ). Thus they become great  mahātmās , perfect souls. If one is fortunate enough to understand his relationship with God, knowing that God is great ( vibhu ) whereas the living entity is small ( aṇu ), he is perfect in knowledge. The individual exists in darkness when he thinks that he is the material body and that everything in relationship with the material body belongs to him. This is called  aham mama  ( janasya moho 'yam aham mameti ). This is illusion. One must give up his illusory conception and thus become fully aware of everything.
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स्वर्णं यथा ग्रावसु हेमकारः 
    क्षेत्रेषु योगैस्तदभिज्ञ आप्नुयात् । 
    क्षेत्रेषु देहेषु तथात्मयोगै- 
    रध्यात्मविद् ब्रह्मगतिं लभेत ॥२१॥
svarṇam yathā grāvasu hema-kāraḥ 
    kṣetreṣu yogais tad-abhijña āpnuyāt 
    kṣetreṣu deheṣu tathātma-yogair 
    adhyātma-vid brahma-gatim labheta