All souls are eternally individual samples of God, yet only God maintains infinite creation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 2.12 — March 5, 1973, Calcutta 730305BG-CALCUTTA [67:58 Minutes] C-054 Bg-02.12_730305BG-CALCUTTA [kīrtana] [break]
Prabhupāda: [chants prema-dhvani prayers] [break] [12:53] na tv evāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ na tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ sarve vayam ataḥ param [Bg. 2.12] Kṛṣṇa, He’s advising Kṛṣṇa, ah, Arjuna, na tu evā ahaṁ: “Never was there any time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings. Nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.” This verse confirms that we are eternal. Kṛṣṇa says that in the past we are like this, individual, in the past. That means in our past lives we are individual.
Just like we are now individual at the present moment—you are Mr. Such-and-such, I am Mr. Such-and-such, he’s Mr. Such-and-such.
We are all individual souls. That we existed as individual souls in the past, and we are existing now. There is no question of… At the present, any one of us, we have got our individual opinion. Why I differ from your opinion?
Why you differ from my opinion? Why you have got your own ideas, I have got my own ideas? I don’t agree, or agree with you? These are all individual things.
That is not a homogenous amalgamation. The individuality is maintained, eternally. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, na tu evā ahaṁ. First of all, He’s the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
He states about Himself that “I was also a person, and at the present moment I am also a person, and in the future also I shall continue to remain a person. Similarly not only I, ”na tu evāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ na tvaṁ, “also you. You are also individual, and now you are individual, and in the future you will remain also individual.” Tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ [Bg. 2.12]. And only because it was Battle of Kurukṣetra, so there were many kings, soldiers, so Kṛṣṇa says, “And all these janādhipāḥ, all these kings and soldiers who are present here, they were also the same thing.” That means both God and the living entities, they’re all individuals. They’re all individuals.