Text 30] Entanglement in Fruitive Activities 1399

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 con-
sciousness, so the Supreme Soul is also conscious. But although there is a
similarity between the consciousness of the Supreme Soul and the cons-
ciousness 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-gita. Ksetrajnarh capi mam 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 dif-
ference is that the individual soul is conscious of the individual body only,
whereas the Supersoul is conscious of the total number of individual

bodies.
TEXT 30

Uae ASA AKA AMT ATA: |
Taal Faget rea TTT 13 oI

etad vai Sraddhaya bhaktya
yogabhyasena nityasah

samahitatma nihsango
viraktya paripasyati

etat—this; vai—certainly ; §raddhaya—with faith; bhaktya—by devotional
service; yoga-abhyasena—by practice of yoga; nityaSah—always; samahita-
atma—he whose mind is fixed; nihsaigah—aloof from material association;
viraktya—by detachment; paripasyati— 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.
