Within or manifested ….. in the absolute truth, they  are considered one and different simultaneously.

Some followers of the Vedas overly emphasize the oneness or overly emphasize the difference between God and His expansions , both His direct expansions and the jivas , the living entities.

In absolute terms, something within  or something external is of the same nature ,  one could say we are eternal because we come from the eternal .  Although we have always been , as much as Divinity has , because of His unlimited potential, some  potential is  manifested externally and some yet to be . God has no limit .

Srimati Radharani and Lord Balarama are one and different from  Krishna, but they are directly expanded from Krishna. In one sense ,  all the incarnations of God are , but they are also the  expansions of other expansions . From one lit  candle, many lit candles can come as the Vedic example tells us .

As the jiva has always been  and , of course, so has Radharani and Balarama, being the direct expansions  from the  original  personality of Godhead Himself , we must know  Jiva is not  , everyone is one and different from God . The other incarnations of Godhead expand from Balarama and, from him, many other expansions from those  expansions , its from an expansion of Balarama that brings forth the Jivas . Nevertheless , ultimately, everything stems  from the unlimited potency of Krishna Himself .  Such varigatedness featuring expansions and other multifarious energies that are ever expanding in bliss and  knowledge in the spiritual kingdoms , or forever covering those who will not accept His position in the material worlds . Srila Jiva Goswami, the  great Vedic scholar  describes this as the  simultaneous one and difference of God , and He is  making the impossible possible,  and who can argue with that.

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