184 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
Vishnu is enjoyable, then he is the greatest offender. The greatest act of blas-
phemy is to consider Vishnu and the living entity on the same level.

The Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is compared
with the blazing fire, whereas the innumerable living entities are compared
with the sparks emanating from the blazing fire. So, although both of them are
fire in quality, yet there is the distinction that Vishnu the Supreme is infinite,
whereas the living entities, which are sparks, are infinitesimal. The infinitesimal
living entities are emanations from the original infinite spirit. In other words,
in their constitutional position as infinitesimal spirits, there is no trace of matter.

The living entities are not as great as Narayan, Vishnu, Who is beyond the
Creation of this material world. This is accepted even by Sankaracharya—
that Narayan is beyond this material Creation. So neither Vishnu nor the living
entity are of the material Creation. Somebody may then enquire: Why were
such small particles of the spirit created at all? The answer is that the com-
pleteness of perfection of the Supreme Absolute Truth is possible when He is
both infinite and infinitesimal. If He is simply infinite and He is not infinitesimal,
then He is not perfect. The infinite portion is the Vishnu Tattwa, or the Supreme
Absolute Personality of Godhead; and the infinitesimal portion is the living
entity.

By the infinite desires of the Supreme Personality of Godhead there is the
existence of the Spiritual World, and by the infinitesimal desires of the living
entities there is this material world. When the infinitesimal living entities are
engaged in their infinitesimal desires for material enjoyment, they are called
Jiva Shakti; but when they are dove-tailed with the infinite, they are called
liberated souls. There is no question, therefore, as to why God created the
infinitesimal portions. It is the complementary and supplementary side of
the Supreme. It is essential, without any doubt, that the infinite must have the
infinitesimal portions. They are inseparable parts and parcels of the Soul.

And, because they are infinitesimal parts and parcels of the Supreme,
there is a reciprocation of feelings between the infinite and the infinitesimal.
Had there been no infinitesimal living entities, then of course the Supreme Lord
would have been inactive, and there would have not been any variegatedness
in spiritual life. As there is no meaning of a king if there is no subject, there-
fore there is no meaning of the Supreme God if there are no infinitesimal
living entities. There would have been no meaning of the word “Lord,” if
there were none to overlord. The conclusion is that the living entities are
counted as expansions of the energy of the Supreme Lord, and the Supreme
Lord, the Personality of Godhead, Krishna, is the Energetic.
