It is not prakrti. It is purusa. It is purusa inside. Sankaracarya says, Sankaracarya says that...

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"It is not prakrti. It is purusa. It is purusa inside" |"Sankaracarya says, Sankaracarya says that"

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Śaṅkarācārya also admits in his commentary on the Bhagavad-gītā: nārāyaṇaḥ paraḥ avyaktāt. And he accepts Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead: sa bhagavān svayaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ. So you cannot supersede Kṛṣṇa by accepting Śaṅkarācārya. Śaṅkarācārya admits, sa bhagavān svayaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ. So Śaṅkarācārya admits Kṛṣṇa is the authority, but Kṛṣṇa says that this material body is prakṛti. How you can say it is puruṣa? Kṛṣṇa says that bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ, bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā: "These eight kinds of prakṛti, they are My separated energy." How you can say it is puruṣa?

Lecture on BG Lecture -- Ahmedabad, December 8, 1972:

Guest (1) : ...part of Puruṣa. Also you say: ahaṁ brahmāsmi. You and all people are part of God...

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest (1): ...and this is jīva and Puruṣa. There's a living entity within us.

Prabhupāda: Yes, nitya. We are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa.

Guest (1): ...is the material nature, and material, this is not the gross body.

Prabhupāda: Eh? Eh?

Guest (1): This is not the gross body. When we go to bed and sleep, we feel that there is some divine spark in us, which puts us by(?) our existence...

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest (1): is a part and parcel of God. That's what the Śaṅkara...

Prabhupāda: No. Part and parcel of God in this way: it is the energy of God.

Guest (1): It is not prakṛti. It is puruṣa. It is puruṣa inside.

Prabhupāda: Puruṣa inside? That is Paramātmā.

Guest (1): Śaṅkarācārya says, Śaṅkarācārya says that...

Prabhupāda: No, we differ from Śaṅkarācārya. We follow Kṛṣṇa. We do not follow Śaṅkarācārya. So if you think Śaṅkarācārya is better than Kṛṣṇa, that is your opinion. We follow Kṛṣṇa. Śaṅkarācārya is not original person. Kṛṣṇa is original person. That is accepted by Vyāsadeva and all... Nārada, Devala. So our proposition is "Follow Kṛṣṇa." Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). The original person. Ādi-puruṣam. Govindam ādi-puruṣam. Śaṅkarācārya is, say, one thousand five hundred years, but Kṛṣṇa, He's the original puruṣa, before the creation. The creation was made... Śaṅkarācārya also admits in his commentary on the Bhagavad-gītā: nārāyaṇaḥ paraḥ avyaktāt. And he accepts Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead: sa bhagavān svayaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ. So you cannot supersede Kṛṣṇa by accepting Śaṅkarācārya. Śaṅkarācārya admits, sa bhagavān svayaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ. So Śaṅkarācārya admits Kṛṣṇa is the authority, but Kṛṣṇa says that this material body is prakṛti. How you can say it is puruṣa? Kṛṣṇa says that bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ, bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā: (BG 7.4) "These eight kinds of prakṛti, they are My separated energy." How you can say it is puruṣa?