BHAGAVAD-GITA 15:16

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 15:16

 

dvav imau purusau loke

ksaras caksara eva ca

ksarah sarvani bhutani

kuta-stho 'ksara ucyate

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

dvau--two; imau--these; purusau--living entities; loke--in the world;

ksarah--fallible; ca--and; aksarah--infallible; eva--certainly;

ca--and; ksarah--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 living entity is fallible, and in the

spiritual world every living 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, ksarah 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, as stated in the Vedanta-sutra, 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 living entities. 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 a living entity

is conditioned, his 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. Ksarah

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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