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Pradyumna: Translation = "The Supersoul is the original source of all senses, yet He is without senses. He is unattached, …

Prabhupāda: Now we can see, these are contradictory. Sarvendriya-guṇābhāsaṁ sarvendriya-vivarjitam. He's the origin of all senses, but He has no …

Asaktam: He has no attachment, but at the same time, sarva-bhṛc ca, He's maintainer of everyone. Nirguṇam, without any qualities; …

Somebody is taking that God is without any form, because here it is said, sarvendriya-varjitam, vivarjitam. Vivarjitam, specifically He has …

The adjustment is that He has eyes, He has ears, He has legs, He has hands---everything He has got. Because …

But a man with poor fund of knowledge, they cannot understand that without material body, how there can be possible …

Spiritual... Spirit is still more subtle.

indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ manasas tu parā buddhir buddhes tu ya paratas saḥ

[Bg. 3.42]

That spirit soul is above the intelligence. Grossly, we can understand our material senses, indriyāṇi. Then, above these material senses, …

So we cannot see even mind, intelligence, what to speak of seeing the soul. So we cannot see even the …

I am seeing you, your hands and legs and head, but I am actually not seeing you. You are seeing …

Therefore we have to make our eyes cleansed so that we can see. Just like sometimes we cannot see the …

keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca jīva-bhāgaḥ sa vijñeyaḥ sa cānantyāya kalpate

[Cc. Madhya 19.140]

So the soul is there, but you cannot see even the topmost point of the hair. And if we divide …

Therefore we have to understand through śāstra. Just like Kṛṣṇa says, "I have got My body, but My body is …

When it is said sarvendriya-vivarjitam, "devoid of all senses," that means He's devoid of..., He has nothing to do with …

This is our nonsense. It is not that God has no ākāra. He has got ākāra. You have to qualify …

bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ tato māṁ tattvato jñātvā viśate tad-anantaram