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TEXT 18 vidya-vinaya-sampanne
SYNONYMS  vidya--education;
vinaya--gentleness; sampanne--fully equipped; brahmane--in
the brahmana; gavi--in the cow; hastini--in the elephant;
suni--in the dog; ca--and; eva--certainly; sva-pake--in
the dog-eater (the outcaste); ca--respectively; panditah--those
who are so wise; sama-darsinah--do see with equal vision.
TRANSLATION The humble
sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and
gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].
PURPORT A Krsna conscious
person does not make any distinction between species or castes. The brahmana
and the outcaste may be different from the social point of view, or a dog,
a cow, or an elephant may be different from the point of view of species,
but these differences of body are meaningless from the viewpoint of a learned
transcendentalist. This is due to their relationship to the Supreme, for
the Supreme Lord, by His plenary portion as Paramatma, is present in everyone's
heart. Such an understanding of the Supreme is real knowledge. As far as
the bodies are concerned in different castes or different species of life,
the Lord is equally kind to everyone because He treats every living being
as a friend yet maintains Himself as Paramatma regardless of the circumstances
of the living entities. The Lord as Paramatma is present both in the outcaste
and in the brahmana, although the body of a brahmana and
that of an outcaste are not the same. The bodies are material productions
of different modes of material nature, but the soul and the Supersoul within
the body are of the same spiritual quality. The similarity in the quality
of the soul and the Supersoul, however, does not make them equal in quantity,
for the individual soul is present only in that particular body whereas
the Paramatma is present in each and every body. A Krsna conscious person
has full knowledge of this, and therefore he is truly learned and has equal
vision. The similar characteristics of the soul and Supersoul are that
they are both conscious, eternal and blissful. But the difference is that
the individual soul is conscious within the limited jurisdiction of the
body, whereas the Supersoul is conscious of all bodies. The Supersoul is
present in all bodies without distinction.
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