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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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God and we, we are all individuals. But the difference is that He's nityo nityanam. Nityanam means plural number. Nityo nityanam. Nityo is singular number, and nityanam means plural number. We are all plural number. We living entities, we are plural number, but God is one, singular number.
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[[Vanisource:730305 - Lecture BG 02.12 - Calcutta|730305 - Lecture BG 02.12 - Calcutta]]
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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 ([[Vanisource:BG 2.12|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. That is confirmed in the Vedas, Kaṭha Upaniṣad. In the Kaṭha Upaniṣad it is said, nityo nityānāṁ. That is the verse, nityo nityānāṁ.

(child fretting) (aside: Stop that child.)

Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām/ eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān, tam ātma-sthaṁ (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13).

So God and we, we are all individuals. But the difference is that He's nityo nityānāṁ. Nityānāṁ means plural number. Nityo nityānāṁ. Nityo is singular number, and nityānāṁ means plural number. We are all plural number. We living entities, we are plural number, but God is one, singular number. But that cannot be plural number of God. It is mistake to say that my God, your God, his God, the Christian God, the Hindu God, the Muslim God. The God cannot be two; then there is no question of becoming God.

There is no competition between God. No. God means the great: nobody can be greater than Him, nobody can be equal to Him. That is God. Nityo nityānāṁ. Nowadays it has become a fashion, especially in India, so many Gods coming out, daily. So we don’t want that kind of God. God is not made by mystic factory, by meditation, or by this, by that. No. God is always God. Just like Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa is God from the beginning of His birth. He did not go to the forest for practicing mystic yoga to become God, or killing big, big bears and monsters and He became God. No. Kṛṣṇa is not that kind of… He's God, always. This singular number, nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām.
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