Devanagari
अहं भवान्न चान्यस्त्वं त्वमेवाहं विचक्ष्व भो: ।
न नौ पश्यन्ति कवयश्छिद्रं जातु मनागपि ॥ ६२ ॥
Verse text
ahaṁ bhavān na cānyas tvaṁ
tvam evāhaṁ vicakṣva bhoḥ
na nau paśyanti kavayaś
chidraṁ jātu manāg api
Synonyms
aham
—
I
;
bhavān
—
you
;
na
—
not
;
ca
—
also
;
anyaḥ
—
different
;
tvam
—
you
;
tvam
—
you
;
eva
—
certainly
;
aham
—
as I am
;
vicakṣva
—
just observe
;
bhoḥ
—
My dear friend
;
na
—
not
;
nau
—
of us
;
paśyanti
—
do observe
;
kavayaḥ
—
learned scholars
;
chidram
—
faulty differentiation
;
jātu
—
at any time
;
manāk
—
in a small degree
;
api
—
even .
Translation
My dear friend, I, the Supersoul, and you, the individual soul, are not different in quality, for we are both spiritual. In fact, My dear friend, you are qualitatively not different from Me in your constitutional position. Just try to consider this subject. Those who are actually advanced scholars, who are in knowledge, do not find any qualitative difference between you and Me.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
I and you are different, but you are not something different from me. Ah! See without anger! The wise never see us in a faulty manner at all.
I am Paramātmā and you are jīva. You are not anything else. You are not different from me, being a conscious entity. “Why do you say such an intolerable thing?” Ah! My pure devotee! See with discretion, without anger (a-ham). Medinī says that ha means anger, Śiva, and a dog. “But I am your servant and you are the master. “Will not others criticize you when you say we are also non-difference?” The wise do never see such a fault (chidram) in our relationship. Only the foolish see contradiction.
Purport
Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entity are qualitatively one. There is no factual difference between the two. The Māyāvādī philosophers are again and again defeated by the illusory energy because they think that there is no separation between the Supersoul and the individual soul or that there is no Supersoul. They are also misled in thinking that everything is the Supersoul. However, those who are
kavayaḥ,
learned scholars, actually know the facts. They do not commit such mistakes. They know that God and the individual soul are one in quality, but that the individual soul falls under the clutches of
māyā,
whereas the Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the controller of
māyā.
Māyā
is the creation of the Supreme Lord (
mayā sṛṣṭā
); therefore the Supreme Lord is the controller of
māyā.
Although one in quality with the Supreme Lord, the individual soul is under the control of
māyā.
Māyāvādī philosophers cannot distinguish between the controller and the controlled.