Meena Devi Dasi: Hearing from devotees like Tukaram is my only hope. The spirit of pure love of God is fully manifest in them. Thank you.
My understanding is simultaneous oneness and difference. Without variety in the oneness where is the enjoyment? Pleasure means there is the enjoyer and the enjoyed but in the spiritual world there is no duality. In the temporary material world there is duality; hot and cold, up and down, good and bad, birth and death, win and lose, and so on. But in the spiritual world there is no duality and still there is variegatedness. In the spiritual world 1+1=1 and 1-1=1. Inconceivable. The Sanksrit term is Achintya Bheda Abheda Tattva*. Krishna and His energies are simultaneously one and different.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achintya_Bheda_Abheda
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains... Sri Sanatana Gosvami asked Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, "Who am I?" In answer, the Lord replied, "You are a pure living entity. You are neither the gross material body nor the subtle body composed of mind and intelligence. Actually you are a spirit soul, eternally part and parcel of the Supreme Soul, Krishna. Therefore you are His eternal servant. You belong to Krishna's marginal potency. There are two worlds -- the spiritual world and the material world -- and you are situated between the material and spiritual potencies. You have a relationship with both the material and the spiritual world; therefore you are called the marginal potency. You are related with Krishna as one and simultaneously different. Because you are spirit soul, you are one in quality with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but because you are a very minute particle of spirit soul, you are different from the Supreme Soul. Therefore your position is simultaneously one with and different from the Supreme Soul. The examples given are those of the sun itself and the small particles of sunshine and of a blazing fire and the small particles of fire."
http://vedabase.net/cc/madhya/20/108-109/en1
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