1360 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 28

TRANSLATION

My dear friend, I, the Supersoul, and you, the individual soul, are not
different in quality, for we are both spiritual. In fact, My dear friend,
you are qualitatively not different from Me in your constitutional
position. Just try to consider this subject. Those who are actually advanced
scholars, who are in knowledge, do not find any qualitative difference
between you and Me.

PURPORT

Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entity
are qualitatively one. There is no factual difference between the two.
The Mayavadi philosophers are again and again defeated by the illusory
energy because they think that there is no separation between the Super-
soul and the individual soul or that there is no Supersoul. They are also
misled in thinking that everything is the Supersoul. However, those who
are kavayah, learned scholars, actually know the facts. They do not commit
such mistakes. They know that God and the individual soul are one in
quality, but that the individual soul falls under the clutches of maya,
whereas the Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the con-
troller of maya. Maya is the creation of the Supreme Lord (maya srsta);
therefore the Supreme Lord is the controller of maya. Although one in
quality with the Supreme Lord, the individual soul is under the control
of maya. Mayavadi philosophers cannot distinguish between the controller
and the controlled.

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TH FO ARATAREARTTTT: |
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yatha purusa atmanam
ekam ddarsa-caksusoh

dvidhabhitam avekseta
tathaivantaram avayoh

yatha—as; purusah—the living entity; Gtmanam—his body; ekam— one;
adarsa—in a mirror; caksusoh—by the eyes; dvidha-ibhiitam—existing as
two; avekseta—sees; tatha—similarly; eva—certainly; antaram—difference;
avayoh— between ourselves.
