Every soul eternally serves; only the object of service changes, never the servant nature itself.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — February 28, 1973, Jakarta 730228LE-JAKARTA [49:18 Minutes] Lecture_730228LE-JAKARTA Prabhupāda: ...na tvaṁ neme janādipāḥ na caiva na bhaviśyāmaḥ sarve vayam ataḥ param [Bg. 2.12] This verse partially I explained last night, this is very important subject matter. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead... Bhagavad-gītā is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore the knowledge is perfect. We are conditioned soul, under the rules and regulation of the material nature, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not under the rules and regulation of the material world.
That is the difference. Both of us, we are living entities, as I explained. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13]. God is also one of us.
So far we are living entities are concerned, we are the same. Just like I explained last night that we are samples of God, but He's complete, He's the whole; we are part and parcel. As part and parcel, there is tendency of being covered by māyā. The example we can cite that the sun and the sunshine...
Sunshine means accumulation of shining particles. They are also individual shining material, molecular parts. The cloud can cover the sunshine partial, not all. The sunshine is expanding millions and millions of miles.
Out of that, hundred, two hundred miles may be covered by the cloud. So that portion of sunshine is called material world. Just try to understand. The...
God is just like sun, kṛṣṇa sūrya-sama, and the sunshine, light, is the brahma-jyotir. Impersonal brahma-jyotir is just like the sunshine, and Paramātmā is just like the sun globe. To understand the Absolute Truth we have to make progress from impersonal Brahman to localized Paramātmā and then, from Paramātmā to this Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the statement of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate [SB 1.2.11] The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, when Śukadeva Gosvāmī was explaining that duty of the human being... Duty of the human being is explained that first beginning is dharma.
Dharmeṇa hīna paśubhiḥ samānāḥ [Hitopadeśa 25]. Unless we come to the platform of understanding what is dharma, or religion... "Religion" is not the exact translation of the word dharma. Religion is understood in English dictionary as a kind of faith.