1020 Srimad-Bhagavatam [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 indi-
vidual soul is also expressed here as animanam. Animanam means infinitesi-
mal. The Supreme Spirit is all-pervading, but the very small spirit is the
individual soul. Akhanditam means not exactly fragmented but constitu-
tionally 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

gaara afagea AAT |
ahaa waft a eattaT tll

jiiana-vairagya-yuk tena
bhakti-yuktena catmand

paripasyaty udasinarn
prakrtim ca hataujasam

Jidna—knowledge; vairégya—renunciation; yuktena—equipped with;
bhakti—devotional service; yuktena—equipped with; ca—and; dtmana—by
the mind; paripasyati—one sees; uddsinam— indifferent; prakrtim—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 vairagya, renunciation. With-
