The body, life airs, senses, internal senses, gross elements and sense objects do not know themselves or other things or the jīva. The jīva knows all of these items and the guṇas which cause them. He also can know Paramātmā, but does not really know the omniscient Lord. I worship that Lord with infinite qualities. “The sense objects cannot know since they are material. But the jīva is conscious. Why does the jīva not know the Lord?” Though the jīva is conscious, he is unconscious of the Lord. The body, the life airs in the body, the sense and the internal senses (manavaḥ), the five gross elements (bhūta) and the sense objects (mātrām), do not know their own form or the form of other things, or the form of the jīva different from all other ātmās. The jīva however, because it is conscious, knows everything—the self, the body and the guṇas of matter, which are the root of all those items. In the liberated state the jīva also knows the Paramātmā (taj-jṣaḥ). But he does not know the Supreme Lord. “But you said the jīva knows the Paramātmā. Why do you say he does not know the Lord?” He does not know because the Lord’s spiritual qualities are unlimited (anantam). It is said: dyupataya eva te na yayur antam anantatayā tvam api yad antarāṇḍa-nicayā nanu sāvaraṇāḥ kha iva rajāṁsi vānti vayasā saha yac chrutayas tvayi hi phalanty atannirasanena bhavan-nidhanāḥ My Lord, you are unlimited, and no one has estimated the extent of your potencies. I think that even you do not know the range of your potential energies. Unlimited planets float in the sky just like atoms, and great Vedāntists, who are engaged in research to find you, discover that everything is different from you. Thus they finally decide that you are everything. SB 10.87.41