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TEXT 16 dvav imau purusau loke
SYNONYMS  dvau--two;
imau--in this (world); purusau--living entities; loke--in
the world; ksarah--fallible; ca--and; aksarah--infallible;
eva--certainly; ca--and; ksarah--the fallible; sarvani--all;
bhutani--living entities; kuta-sthah--in oneness; aksarah--infallible;
ucyate--is said.
TRANSLATION There are
two classes of beings, the fallible and the infallible. In the material
world every entity is fallible, and in the spiritual world every entity
is called infallible.
PURPORT As already explained,
the Lord in His incarnation as Vyasadeva compiled the Vedanta-sutra.
Here the Lord is giving, in summary, the contents of the Vedanta-sutra:
He says that the living entities, who are innumerable, can be divided into
two classes--the fallible and the infallible. The living entities are eternally
separated parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When
they are in contact with the material world, they are called jiva-bhuta,
and the Sanskrit words given here, sarvani bhutani, mean that they
are fallible. Those who are in oneness with the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, however, are called infallible. Oneness does not mean that they
have no individuality, but that there is no disunity. They are all agreeable
to the purpose of the creation. Of course, in the spiritual world, there
is no such thing as creation, but since the Supreme Personality of Godhead
has stated in the Vedanta-sutra that He is the source of all emanations,
that conception is explained.
According
to the statement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krsna, there
are two classes of men. The Vedas give evidence of this, so there
is no doubt about it. The living entities, who are struggling in this world
with the mind and five senses, have their material bodies which are changing
as long as the living entities are conditioned. One's body changes due
to contact with matter; matter is changing, so the living entity appears
to be changing. But in the spiritual world the body is not made of matter;
therefore there is no change. In the material world the living entity undergoes
six changes--birth, growth, duration, reproduction, then dwindling and
vanishing. These are the changes of the material body. But in the spiritual
world the body does not change; there is no old age, there is no birth,
there is no death. There all exists in oneness. It is more clearly explained
as sarvani bhutani: any living entity who has come in contact with
matter, beginning from the first created being, Brahma, down to a small
ant, is changing its body; therefore they are all fallible. In the spiritual
world, however, they are always liberated in oneness.
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