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TEXT 35 yaj jnatva na punar moham
SYNONYMS  yat--which;
jnatva--knowing; na--never; punah--again; moham--illusion;
evam--like this; yasyasi--you shall go; pandava--O
son of Pandu; yena--by which; bhutani--all living entities;
asesani--totally; draksyasi--you will see; atmani--in
the Supreme Soul; atho--or in other words; mayi--in Me.
TRANSLATION And when
you have thus learned the truth, you will know that all living beings are
but part of Me--and that they are in Me, and are Mine.
PURPORT The result of
receiving knowledge from a self-realized soul, or one who knows things
as they are, is learning that all living beings are parts and parcels of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krsna. The sense of a separated
existence from Krsna is called maya (ma--not, ya--this).
Some think that we have nothing to do with Krsna, that Krsna is only a
great historical personality and that the Absolute is the impersonal Brahman.
Factually, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, this impersonal
Brahman is the personal effulgence of Krsna. Krsna, as the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, is the cause of everything. In the Brahma-samhita it
is clearly stated that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the
cause of all causes. Even the millions of incarnations are only His different
expansions. Similarly, the living entities are also expansions of Krsna.
The Mayavadi philosophers wrongly think that Krsna loses His own separate
existence in His many expansions. This thought is material in nature. We
have experience in the material world that a thing, when fragmentally distributed,
loses its own original identity. But the Mayavadi philosophers fail to
understand that A bsolute means that one plus one is equal to one, and
that one minus one is also equal to one. This is the case in the absolute
world.
For want
of sufficient knowledge in the absolute science, we are now covered with
illusion, and therefore we think that we are separate from Krsna. Although
we are separated parts of Krsna, we are nevertheless not different from
Him. The bodily difference of the living entities is maya, or not
actual fact. We are all meant to satisfy Krsna. By maya alone Arjuna
thought that the temporary bodily relationship with his kinsmen was more
important than his eternal spiritual relationship with Krsna. The whole
teaching of the Gita is targeted toward this end: that a living
being, as His eternal servitor, cannot be separated from Krsna, and his
sense of being an identity apart from Krsna is called maya. The
living entities, as separate parts and parcels of the Supreme, have a purpose
to fulfill. Having forgotten that purpose, since time immemorial, they
are situated in different bodies, as men, animals, demigods, etc. Such
bodily differences arise from forgetfulness of the transcendental service
of the Lord. But when one is engaged in transcendental service through
Krsna consciousness, one becomes at once liberated from this illusion.
One can acquire such pure knowledge only from the bona fide spiritual master
and thereby avoid the delusion that the living entity is equal to Krsna.
Perfect knowledge is that the Supreme Soul, Krsna, is the supreme shelter
for all living entities, and giving up such shelter, the living entities
are deluded by the material energy, imagining themselves to have a separate
identity. Thus, under different standards of material identity, they become
forgetful of Krsna. When, however, such deluded living entities become
situated in Krsna consciousness, it is to be understood that they are on
the path of liberation, as confirmed in the Bhagavatam: muktir
hitvanyatha-rupam svarupena vyavasthitih. Liberation means to be situated
in one's constitutional position as the eternal servitor of Krsna (Krsna
consciousness).
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