既一既异——圣帕布帕德《至尊奥义书》诗节7讲座
1970年5月9日，洛杉矶
圣帕布帕德：
yasmin sarvāṇi bhūtānyātmaivābhūd vijānataḥtatra ko mohaḥ kaḥ śokaekatvam anupaśyataḥ（《至尊奥义书》诗节7）
“一个恒常观众生物为灵性火花，视其本质与主如一的人，使是真正洞悉事物的人。他哪来困惑烦忧呢？” 这就是奎师那知觉的觉悟。觉悟有不同种，Butekatvam，本质始终是如一的。Brahmavādi，非人格主义者，他们认为我们与主，或者至尊绝对真理是百分之百一致的，但事实并非如此。如果人与至尊主完全一致，那么他怎么还会被玛雅控制？这个问题，他们无法回答。
所以我们通过韦达文献发现，我们真正的身份就像火，火焰和火花，这两者在性质上是一直的，但是小火花一旦离开火焰，飘落到其他地方，那么它炙热的性质就会被覆盖。这个覆盖根据不同性质会有不同表现。就像火焰。如果火花落入水中，那么它就彻底熄灭了。同样，生物体，尽管性质上是神的火花，但是一旦接触愚昧形态，他灵性的性质就几乎湮灭。火花如果掉落在地上，不是在水里，那么还会保留一些形式，热。同样，生物体处于rajo-guṇa，激情形态，那就还有一些希望。当生物体处于善良形态……就像同样的火花，如果落到草地上，干草上，那么同样这一粒火花就会引燃另一个火苗，燃烧成另一堆火焰。同样，当人处在善良形态，那么他就能创造出灵性联谊。就像小火花的例子，如果落到适宜的环境，或者比如干草里，它就能引燃火焰。
因此，在这个物质世界，人必须达到善良形态的境界。如果没有达到善良形态的境界……善良形态的境界就是婆罗门的品质。这是我们所教导的。
我们奎师那知觉运动就是为了能让一些人达到善良形态的境界。这是这个世界现在最需要的。这个诗节需要一些婆罗门，有资格的婆罗门。你们在接受训练，成为有资格的婆罗门。一定要小心自己不要接触到激情和愚昧形态。激情和愚昧形态会蛊惑你……Kāma lobha，色欲和贪婪。这是激情和愚昧的标志。当你处在善良形态中，你就真实的看待万事万物。那时你就能发现你自己并不是物质，你是灵性的灵魂。如果你能够更进一步，你就能认识到，“我是至尊主永恒的部分与碎片，微小的火花。”所以这节诗里说ekatvam anupaśyataḥ，其中的ekatvam，指的是性质如一，但并不是数量如一。你在性质上与主是一样的。但是你在数量上不可能与主一样。这就是ekatvam。
谢谢大家。请继续。唱诵哈瑞奎师那。（至此结束）
Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 7—Los Angeles, May 9, 1970
Prabhupāda:
yasmin sarvāṇi bhūtānyātmaivābhūd vijānataḥtatra ko mohaḥ kaḥ śokaekatvam anupaśyataḥ[Īśo 7]
"One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What is there as illusion or anxiety for him?" This realization is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. There are different kinds of realization, butekatvam, a qualitatively oneness, is always there. The brahmavādi, impersonalist, they think that we are cent percent one with the Lord or the Supreme Absolute Truth, but that is not a fact. If one is cent percent one with the Supreme Lord, then how he has come under the control of māyā? This question, they cannot answer.
So real identity is in the Vedic literature we find that just like the fire, big fire, and the sparks of the fire, they are of the same quality, but the small spark, when he goes out of the fire and falls elsewhere, then, at that time, its fiery quality becomes covered. So this covering becomes manifest according to different qualities. Just like the fire. If a fire spark, if it drops on the water, then it is, it assumes completely extinguished. Similarly, the living entity, although qualitatively the fire, with God, when it contacts the modes of ignorance, his spiritual quality becomes almost extinct. When he is on the land, not on the water, then there is something, heat. Similarly, when the living entity is in the rajo-guṇa, the quality of passion, there is some hope. And when the living entity is in goodness... Just like the same spark, if it drops on the grass, dry grass, then the same spark of fire ignites another fire, another blazing fire. Similarly, if one is in goodness, then he can create a spiritual association. Just like the same example, that the small spark of fire, if it falls in favorable circumstances, or in dry grass, then it can ignite fire.
So one has to come, therefore, to the platform of goodness in this material world. If one does not come to the platform of goodness... The platform of goodness is the brahminical qualification. That we are preaching. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to bring some men on the platform of goodness. The world requires it now. The world is need of some brāhmaṇas,qualified brāhmaṇas. Not that... You are being trained up to become qualified brāhmaṇas. So be always careful that you may not contact the quality of passion and ignorance. Passion and ignorance will induce you... Kāma lobha, lust and greediness. That is the sign of passion and ignorance. And when you are in goodness, then you can see things as they are. Then you can see yourself, that you are not matter; you are spirit soul. And if you make further advance, then you understand that "I am eternal part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, the fiery spark." So that ekatvam anupaśyataḥ, in this verse, ekatvam, that qualitatively one, not quantitatively. You are one with God qualitatively. You cannot be equal with God quantitatively. That ekatvam.
Thank you. Go on. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. (end)