paramatma difference from atma

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Simply going and asking the spiritual master or guru, and not to accept his instruction, then don't waste your time. Don't waste your time. In a challenging spirit, if you go to a spiritual master without any service, sevaya, and pranipatena... Pranipatena... Prakrsta-rūpena nipata. Nipata means fall down, and pra means prakrsta-rūpa, sufficiently; no reservation. This knowledge, the transcendental knowledge, is based on this pranipata. Therefore Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg 18.66]: "You just surrender unto Me." And similarly, we have to surrender to Krsna or His representative. So guru is representative, external representative. Internal guru is Krsna Himself. Īsvaraḥ sarva-bhūtanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati [Bg 18.61]. Not that Īsvara, Krsna, is in Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrndavana. He is everywhere, even within the atom. Goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhūtaḥ [Bs 5.37]. (More...)

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