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anādir ātmā puruṣo nirguṇaḥ prakṛteḥ paraḥ pratyag-dhāmā svayaṁ-jyotir viśvaṁ yena samanvitam

[SB 3.26.3]

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"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supreme Soul, and He has no beginning. He is transcendental to the material …

Prabhupāda:

anādir ātmā puruṣo nirguṇaḥ prakṛteḥ paraḥ pratyag-dhāmā svayaṁ-jyotir viśvaṁ yena samanvitam

[SB 3.26.3]

In the previous verse we had already discussed, jñānaṁ puruṣasya ātma-darśanam [SB 3.26.2]. Puruṣasya... The living entity is also called …

So there are two kinds of puruṣa: one puruṣa in the material world, as we are. We are artificially claiming …

This jagat, this material world, is existing on the spiritual prakṛti. You can calculate what is your this body. This …

So by our desire we get a particular type of form. It may be human being, it may be demigod, …

So this is jñāna. But we are wasting our time---this jñāna, that jñāna. But real jñāna, there is no. We …

So that ātma-darśanam is described here, everywhere, in all the Vedic literatures. The first ātma-darśana is anādi. Anādi: there is …

We are very small, and God is great. So the great body, this universal body, as Kṛṣṇa showed universal body …

Then in the Bhagavad-gītā also it is said, na jāyate. Na jāyate means anything which is born, it has got …

Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad..., brahmaṇaḥ ahaṁ pratiṣṭhā [Bg. 14.27]. The jyoti is coming, brahma-jyoti is coming, from Kṛṣṇa's body. …

But there is another planetary system. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā = na tad bhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na …

That is the beginning everywhere. That is Vedic literature. The Bhagavad-gītā, in the beginning, the first instruction is that dehino …