Vyāsadeva has purposefully written here, śrī bhagavān uvāca: "Bhagavān, the Supreme Person, the ultimate . . ." Bhagavān means the ultimate. Just like in some country there is Supreme Court. So when the judgment is given by the Supreme Court, that is final. And when it was monarchy, the order given by the king, that is final—no more questioning. Similarly, when it is mentioned śrī bhagavān uvāca, that means it is final. No more argument, no more logic. Logic is there, argument is there, but it is final. No waste of time anymore. What Bhagavān says, that is called paramparā. The first utterances, order, or statement, or judgment, is given by the Supreme Lord, and if that is followed through the disciplic chain, that is real understanding, real knowledge.
You . . . we are . . . first of all we are very minute part and parcel of Bhagavān. Mamaivāṁśaḥ. So, according to our position, we have got our knowledge, we have got our understanding, proportionately. Just like fire, big fire and a small spot fire. Both of them are fire, but you cannot compare the small fragment of fire with the big fire. That is not possible. The big ocean and a small drop of water from the ocean . . . because the taste of the small drop of ocean is the same, the Māyāvādī philosophers, they conclude that, "I am the same." But they have no common sense that the small drop of water, although the quality is the same, it is very small.