oneness

cannot become one

The spirit soul is one, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is manifested in svamsa and vibhinnamsa expansions. The jivas are vibhinnamsa expansions. The different incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are svamsa expansions. Thus there are different potencies of the Supreme Lord, and there are different expansions of the different potencies. In this way, for different reasons there are different expansions of the same one principle, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This understanding is real knowledge, but when the living entity is covered by the upadhi or designated body, he sees differences, exactly as one sees differences in reflections of oneself on water, oil or in a mirror. When something is reflected on the water, it appears to be moving. When it is reflected on ice, it appears fixed. When it is reflected on oil, it appears hazy. The subject is one, but under different conditions it appears differently. When the qualifying factor is taken away, the whole appears to be one. In other words, when one comes to the paramahamsa or perfectional stage of life by practicing bhakti-yoga, he sees only Krsna everywhere. For him there is no other objective. (More...)

Individual... Without individuality, there is no ananda. If we are sitting together, the oneness is the process of service, that's all. But there are joking. They are cutting jokes. There are some varieties of food. That is ananda. Varieties are there. That is ananda. But they are for one purpose: satisfaction of Krsna. That is oneness, not that we have become amalgamated. Amalgamation... We are amalgamated in one purpose, but not that the... It cannot be, because we are separated energy eternally. Mamaivamso jiva-bhutah jiva-loke sanatanah [Bg 15.7], sanatana. Sanatana means eternal. It is not that by chance we have become separated individuals. No. This word is used, sanatana. Sanatana means eternal. Eternally we are separated energy, and that is the beginning of Saṅkarsana. Saṅkarsanah karana-toya-sayi . That Saṅkarsana, before this material creation, He lies down in the Karana Ocean, karana-toya-sayi. Then... Yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya [Bs 5.48]. He is lying in the Karana Ocean in the sleeping mood, and then, from His breathing, innumerable universes are coming out. That is the origin of material creation. Yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya. (More...)