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position of Krsna consciousness. Therefore Krsna is addressed as
akincana-vitta. ‘‘When one becomes materially impoverished, You are
the only wealth.”’ Namo ’kificana-vittdya nivrtta-guna-vrttaye. ‘‘When one
takes You as one’s only possession, one immediately becomes free from
the activities of the material nature.’ In other words, by accepting Krsna
in this way, one attains the transcendental position of the Absolute. At-
maramaya: “‘ At that time, one becomes happy with You. Krsna, You are
happy with Yourself, and one who surrenders to You becomes happy, as
You are.” There is no difference between Krsna’s body and Krsna Him-
self. He is entirely self, entirely spirit. We, on the other hand, have a
body that is different from ourselves. I am self, but I possess a material
body. But when we actually become dependent on Krsna, who is com-
pletely self-satisfied, we can also be self-satisfied with Krsna. ,

Kaivalya-pataye namah. The Mayavadi philosophers, the monists,
want to become one with the Supreme. The Supreme is self-satisfied, and
they also want to be self-satisfied by becoming one with the Supreme.
Our philosophy of Krsna consciousness is the same, but instead of be-
coming one with Krsna, we depend on Krsna. That is actual oneness. If
we simply agree to abide by the orders of Krsna and have no disagree-
ment with Him, we are situated in actual oneness.

The Mayavadi philosophers think, ‘‘Why shall I keep my individual,
separate existence? I shall merge into the Supreme.” But that is not
possible. From the very beginning, we are separated parts of Krsna.
Krsna therefore says in Bhagavad-gita, ‘‘My dear Arjuna, you should
know that you, I, and all the persons assembled on this battlefield were
individuals in the past, we are individuals at present, and in the future we
shall continue to remain individuals.”

Nityo nityanam cetanas cetandnam. Krsna is the supreme nitya, the
supreme living force, among the innumerable living forces. We living
entities (jiva) are innumerable (ananta); there is no counting how many
we are. Similarly, Krsna is also a living entity, but He is the chief, the
supreme living entity. That is the difference. One leader may have many
followers. Similarly, Krsna, the supreme living entity, is the supreme
leader, and we are subordinate, dependent living entities.

That we are dependent is not very difficult to understand. If Krsna does
not supply us food, we shall starve, because independently we cannot
produce anything. Eko bahtinam yo vidadhati kaman: Krsna is maintain-
ing everything, and we are being maintained. Therefore Krsna is the real
predominator, and we should be willing to be predominated. That is our
natural constitutional position. If we falsely want to become predomina-
