यस्मात्क्षरमतीतोऽहमक्षरादपि चोत्तमः।अतोऽस्मि लोके वेदे च प्रथितः पुरुषोत्तमः।।15.18।।
yasmāt kṣharam atīto ’ham akṣharād api chottamaḥ ato ’smi loke vede cha prathitaḥ puruṣhottamaḥ
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A Reading - Rantideb
Why: since Krishna transcends the perishable and is higher even than the imperishable, he is celebrated in the world and the Vedas as the supreme Person, again ranking this third category above both of the earlier two, without dismissing either of them as unimportant.
In life: recognizing a deeper, sustaining force behind two categories you've been working with doesn't make those original categories irrelevant, it just places them within a larger, more complete picture.
Teaching: when you identify a deeper, sustaining force behind two categories you've long relied on, don't discard the original categories as now irrelevant, instead place them within this larger, more complete picture you've just uncovered.