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advocates of oneness of the self with God], Dvaitans [advocates of total difference between the self and

This is the process taught by Caitanya Mahāprabhu – to bring all the Dvaitans and Advaitans together He has all power, all wealth, all beauty, all fame, all knowledge, and all renunciation.

But actually, from the Bhagavad-gītā we understand that the living entities are part and parcel of God And in the Vedas it is said, nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13): both God and His We are maintained, and God is the maintainer. We are predominated – we are not independent – and God is the predominator. But because the predominated living entities are part and parcel of God, in quality they are one with

Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s philosophy is acintya-bhedābheda: the living entities are simultaneously one with and The living entity is one in the sense that he is part and parcel of God. But God is great, and we are minute. In that way we are different. Mahāprabhu enunciated this philosophy of acintya-bhedābheda: inconceivable, simultaneous oneness with and

But it is a fact that the living entity is eternally one with and different from God.

Hari Śauri:

mamaivāṁśo jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati

“The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very …

Śrīla Prabhupāda: So if the living entity is eternally a fragmental part, how can he become one with the whole? …

Of course, in the spiritual world there often seems to be no difference between the master and the servant When Kṛṣṇa is defeated in play, He has to take His friend on His shoulder and carry him. The friends do not know who is God and who is not God. Of course, the difference is always there between God and the part-and-parcel living entities, but by

itthaṁ satāṁ brahma-sukhānubhūtyā dāsyaṁ gatānāṁ para-daivatena māyāśritānāṁ nara-dārakeṇa sākaṁ vijahruḥ kṛta-puṇya-puñjāḥ

And who is Kṛṣṇa? He is the essence of brahma-sukha, spiritual bliss.

Vṛndāvana, Kṛṣṇa’s abode, you love Kṛṣṇa so much that you will not distinguish between the Supreme Lord and cows, the calves, the trees, the flowers, the water, the elderly men, Kṛṣṇa’s parents Nanda Mahārāja and

Sometimes the residents of Vṛndāvana see Kṛṣṇa’s wonderful activities and think, “Kṛṣṇa must be some five thousands years ago, He passed through many dangerous situations – so many demons were coming – and Kṛṣṇa’s family and friends never understood that Kṛṣṇa is God.

So these facts pertain to a higher standard of understanding. Only a devotee can understand that to become one with …

These are vātsalya-rasa [parenthood], and mādhurya-rasa [conjugal love].

understanding, Lord Caitanya introduced the philosophy of acintya-bhedābheda – simultaneously one with and explained by Kṛṣṇa in Bhagavad-gītā [15.7]: mamaivāṁśo … jīva-bhūtaḥ – the living entities are part and But God is the master, and we are always subordinate.