When the Paramatma is present everywhere, how is he undivided?
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Question is, here it is said that Lord is present everywhere in the nature also. And the Bhagavatam says that Paramatma is present everywhere. At the same time, he’s undivided.
So how, if he’s present everywhere as his expansions, how is he undivided? Yeah. Actually, Om Purnamadah Purnamidam Purnat Purnamudachyate. Invocation of the Isha Upanishad says that from the complete whole, complete units come.
At the same time, what remains is complete in itself. What that means is that Krishna, when he expands, So is it that the Paramatma within you and the Paramatma within me are different? No. It is the same Paramatma.
It is the same one Supersoul. Yadā bhūta-pratah bhāvam ekastha manu-paśyati tad eva ca vistāraṁ brahma-sampad-dhītām. In 13.31, Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that bhūta-pratah bhāvam.
In the living entities you see in the world, they have many, many different natures. Ekastha manu-paśyati. There is one underlying nature beyond it all.
Tad eva ca vistāraṁ. From that one underlying nature, everything is manifested. One who sees like that, brahma-sampad-dhītām.
Such a person has spiritual vision. So, when Krishna expands, it is not that the expansion has become two persons in the sense that they are one person in many forms. Paramatma in your heart and Paramatma in my heart are not like identical twins.
The identical twins are two different persons. But this is, when you say Paramatma has many expansions, He is one person who is manifesting in many forms. So, one rough example that is given for this is, there is a moon overhead.
And there are many pots of water. And in the pots of water we see the reflection of the moon. It is the same one moon which is reflected in the pots.
So, similarly that one super soul is manifested in many forms. So, it is like one person in many forms. It is not different persons.
So, when we understand this, then we understand that Krishna can manifest in many forms and at the same time, He is the same. So, avibhaktam ca bhūteṣu vibhaktam eva ca sthitaṁ. Avibhaktam is undivided, but still He appears as if He is divided.
So, it is out of His love for all living beings that He manifests within their heart. And He is present close to them as the Paramatma. But at the same time, it is the same one person.
It is not different. Does it address the question? You would like to add something? It is the basis of the? Yeah, it is the basis of the difference. Thank you.
Yes, we have one more question. Thank you very much.