…what is this manifestation in the course of this material world, so many things coming? Just like a bubble in the ocean. If you travel over the seas you will find so many waves are tossing each other, and so many bubbles are formed, and again it is submerged in the water — no account of it. Similarly, all these manifestations are coming and going and coming and going and, packed within this coming and going, there is the actual spirit soul, which na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20], which exists, and we are that permanent existent. We are that permanent form…

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 2.55-58 — New York, April 15, 1966