TEXT 2
sri-bhagavan uvaca
esa te karsid bhangam
haya-medha-satasya ha
ksamapayata atmanam
amusya ksantum arhasi
SYNONYMS
sri-bhagavan uvacathe Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, spoke; esahthis Lord Indra; teyour; akarsitperformed; bhangamdisturbance; hayahorse; medhasacrifice; satasyaof the one-hundredth; haindeed; ksamapayatahwho is asking pardon; atmanamunto yourself; amusyahim; ksantumto forgive; arhasiyou ought.
TRANSLATION
Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, said: My dear King Prthu, Indra, the King of heaven, has disturbed your execution of one hundred sacrifices. Now he has come with Me to be forgiven by you. Therefore excuse him.
PURPORT
In this verse the word atmanam is very significant. It is a custom among yogis and jnanis to address one another (or even an ordinary man) as ones self, for a transcendentalist never accepts a living being to be the body. Since the individual self is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self and the Superself are qualitatively nondifferent. As the next verse will explain, the body is only a superficial covering, and consequently an advanced transcendentalist will not make a distinction between one self and another.

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