Quantitatively different - atma, Paramatma, and qualitatively one - atma is spirit, Paramatma is spirit. It is called acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, simultaneously one and different. One in quality, different in quantity

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"quantitatively different—ātmā, Paramātmā, and qualitatively one—ātmā is spirit, Paramātmā is spirit. It is called acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, simultaneously one and different. One in quality, different in quantity"

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Paramātmā and ātmā, it is not very difficult to know. Just like you are father, and you have got many children at home. So they, because they are children, they are, I mean to say, as ingredients. You and your children are the same, but still, you are superior, and the children are dependent. Your children are not different from you, but still, you are superior and they are inferior, or junior. So qualitatively one, but quantitatively different. So quantitatively different—ātmā, Paramātmā, and qualitatively one—ātmā is spirit, Paramātmā is spirit. It is called acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, simultaneously one and different. One in quality, different in quantity. You can create. You are also qualitatively one with God. You have got creative power.

721118 - Lecture BG 02.13 - Hyderabad

Śyāmasundara: He wanted to know what is the difference between Paramātmā and ātmā.

Prabhupāda: Paramātmā and ātmā, it is not very difficult to know. Just like you are father, and you have got many children at home. So they, because they are children, they are, I mean to say, as ingredients. You and your children are the same, but still, you are superior, and the children are dependent. Your children are not different from you, but still, you are superior and they are inferior, or junior. So qualitatively one, but quantitatively different.

So quantitatively different—ātmā, Paramātmā, and qualitatively one—ātmā is spirit, Paramātmā is spirit. It is called acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, simultaneously one and different. One in quality, different in quantity. You can create. You are also qualitatively one with God. You have got creative power.