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sridatta1 · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 637 Location: india

The soul is knower and the capacity of knowledge gradually develops and reaches climax
Kramavruddhau prajnaanamapyaatmaa gitah tadagrahyam.

(The soul is knower and the capacity of knowledge gradually develops and reaches climax, where the soul is charged with God. Even such charged soul is ordinary soul only on analysis. God, the charger, cannot be grasped).

The fourth great statement speaks that the soul having special knowledge is Brahman. Here the soul charged by God can alone give the special knowledge. Such soul can be called as God since God can be indicated through such medium only. Hence, the word Brahman here can mean God. At the same time, this word can also stand for the soul because the soul is also called as Brahman. In this angle, since God is beyond imagination and is not grasped in such charged soul also, only the ordinary soul is grasped. This means even the soul charged by God is also ordinary soul if you analyze it. In Gita, Krishna, charged by God, also told that even He is also an ordinary soul that exists in any human being (Ahamaatmaa…). This means that though the soul of Krishna is special and different from other souls due to God in it, if you analyze, even such special soul looks like an ordinary soul only because the unimaginable God existing in such charged soul is not grasped.