The living
being is energy of the Supreme Lord, just as the sunshine is the energy of the
sun globe. The sunshine is a combination of tiny shining particles. It looks
like one homogeneous thing, but it is made up of small particles. That is the
scientific understanding. Similarly, we are small particles of the Supreme
Lord. How small? That is also described in the scripture:
balagra-sata-bhagasya
satadha kalpitasya ca
bhago jivah sa vijneyah sa canantyaya kalpate
The
dimension of the living entity is one ten-thousandth of the tip of a hair. We
are very proud of our eyes. But here is the indication from the scripture of
the length and breadth of the living soul. You may try to see it with your eyes
or your microscope, but that is not possible. Therefore, one class of
philosophers, because they cannot find the soul, say that it is nirakara,
“formless.”
Spiritual
enlightenment means that first we must try to understand the jiva, the living
entity. We can understand the quality of the Lord by understanding the jiva
because the jiva is a small particle of the Lord. We can understand the
composition of gold from a small particle of gold, or the chemical composition
of the ocean from a drop of ocean water. Similarly, if we analyze the
characteristics of the living entity, we can understand the characteristics of
God.
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