Text 10] Bhagavatam is the Answer 561

Supersoul and the individual soul, the individual soul is dependent on the
Supersoul for being liberated from the illusion of material energy. The
individual is under the clutches of illusory energy, and therefore although
qualitatively one with the Supersoul, he is under the illusion of identifying
himself with matter. And to get out of this illusory conception of factual
life, the individual soul has to depend on the Supersoul to be recognized as
one with Him. In that sense also the Supersoul is the supreme shelter. And
there is no doubt about it.

The individual living entity or the jiva is always dependent on the
Supersoul Paramatma because the individual soul forgets his spiritual
identity whereas the Supersoul Paramatma does not forget His transcen-
dental position. In the Bhagavad-gita these separate positions of the jiva-
atma and the paramatma are specifically mentioned. In the Fourth Chapter,
Arjuna, the jiva soul, is represented as forgetful of his many, many pre-
vious births, but the Lord, the Supersoul, is not forgetful. The Lord even
remembers when He taught the Bhagavad-gita to the sun-god some billions
of years before. The Lord can remember such millions and billions of
years, as is stated in the Bhagavad-gita as follows:

vedaharh samatitani vartamanani carjuna
bhavisyani ca bhittani mam tu veda na kascana

The Lord in His eternal blissful body of knowledge is fully aware of all
that happened in the past, and that which is going on at the present as
well as what will happen in the future. And in spite of His becoming the
shelter of both the Paramatma and Brahman, persons with a poor fund
of knowledge are unable to understand Him as He is.

The propaganda of the identity of cosmic consciousness with the con-
sciousness of the individual living entities is completely misleading because
even a person or individual soul like Arjuna could not remember his past
deeds, although he is always with the Lord. And what can the tiny
ordinary man know about his past, present and future, falsely claiming to
be one with the cosmic consciousness.

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