 Individuals are microcosms homologous to the īśvara macrocosm; however, they are part and parcel of the universe. They are ontologically dependent on īśvara and lack any objective ontological power of projection beyond subjective projections like dreaming and imagination. While the individual has a part to whole relationship with īśvara from the mind-body standpoint, ultimately there is only numerical identity between the individual and īśvara from the standpoint of existence identified as pure consciousness. Īśvara is the “knower of the field” (kṣetrajña)—the core of subjectivity present in all living beings and identified with brahman as pure consciousness (BhGBh 13.2).