is combination of matter and spirit

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The answer is given there. The Vedanta-sūtra, the question is, "What is Brahman?" And the answer is there: athato brahma-jijnasa, janmady asya yataḥ. Indirectly given. The Brahman, Para-brahman, is that from whom everything emanates. "Everything" means... There are two things: jaḍa and cetana, living entities and nonliving, jaḍa. Dull entities. Matter is dull. So "everything" means including both. Matter is also coming from Krsna, and these cetana, or living entities, they are also coming. And the whole world is combination of this matter and cetana-your body, my body. Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakrtim param, jiva-bhūtam maha-baho yayedam dharyate jagat [Bg 7.5]. (More...)

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