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of the gigantic cosmic manifestation. This is confirmed in the Vedas.
Yasmin dyauh prthivi cantariksam. Vijidtaram adhikena vianiyat.
Ekam evadvitiyam. Atma-jyotih samrad ihovica. Sa iman lokan asrjata.
Satyam jidnam anantam. Asarigo hy ayam purusah. Pirnasya pimam
adaya pimam evavasisyate. 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 avisuddha-buddhayah—unpolished or
contaminated intelligence. When such persons, after endeavoring hard
for many, many lives to understand the supreme cause, are finally in ac-
tual knowledge of Krsna, Vasudeva, they surrender unto Him
(vésudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah). Thus they become
great mahdtmas, 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 (anu), 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 aharh 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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