Fallible

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I went thru BG Chapter 15 to understand fallible and infallible. This is

what SP writes(a part of it):

 

 

"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."

 

According to Bhakta Ivar ksara meaning fallible refers to the material body

which is perishable. But here we see SP saying from Brahma to small ant who

are changing the body, THEY are all fallible. Seems like he is referring to

the jivas and not bodies. SP then distinguishes the jivas in the spitiual

world who are always liberated in oneness. So SP is talking about 2 kinds of

jivas and not body and a jiva.

 

YS

RKD