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Bhakti yogena manasi samyak pranihite amale
Apasyat purusham purnam mayam cha tad apashrayam
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Bhakti—devotional service, Yogena—by the process of linking up, manasi—upon the mind, Samyak—perfectly, Pranihite—engaged in fixed up, Amale—without anything of matter, Apasyat—saw, Purusham—the Personality of Godhead, Purnam—absolute, mayam—energy, Cha—also, Tad—His, Apashrayam—under full control.
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Thus He fixed up His mind perfectly engaged in the linking up process of devotional service without any tinge of material affection and He saw the Absolute Personality of Godhead along with His external energy under full control.
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Perfect vision of the Absolute Truth is possible only by the linking process of devotional service. This is also confirmed in the Bhagwat Geeta that one can perfectly realise the Absolute Truth Personality of Godhead only by the process of devotional service and one can enter into the Kingdom of God by such perfect knowledge. Imperfect realisation of the Absolute by partial approach of impersonal Brahman or localised Paramatma does not permit anyone to enter into the Kingdom of God. Sri Narada advised Srila Vyasdeva to become absorbed in transcendental thinking of the Personality of Godhead and His activities. Srila Vyasadeva did not take any notice of the effulgence of Brahman because that is not Absolute vision. The Absolute Vision is the Personality of Godhead as it is confirmed in the Bhagwat Geeta Vasudeva Sarvam iti. In the Upanishads also it is confirmed that Vasudeva the Personality of Godhead is covered by golden glowing Hiranmoyena patrena veil of Impersonal Brahman and when that curtain is removed by the mercy of the Lord the real Face of the Absolute is seen. The Absolute is mentioned here as the Purusha or the Person. The Absolute Personality of Godhead is mentioned in so many Vedic literatures and in the Bhagwat Geeta the Purusha is confirmed as eternal and the Original Person. The Absolute Personality of Godhead is the Perfect Person. The Supreme Person has manyfold energies out of which the internal external and the marginal energies are specifically important. The energy mentioned here is the external energy as it will be clear from the statements of her activities. The internal energy is there along with the Absolute Person as the moon light is seen along with the moon. The External energy is compared with darkness because she keeps the living entities in the darkness of ignorance. The word Apashrayam suggests that this energy of the Lord has no inferior complex in comparison with the superior energy called by the name Internal Potency. The internal potency is also called Maya but it is spiritual Maya or energy exhibited in the Absolute realm. When one is under the shelter of this internal potency the darkness of material ignorance is at once dissipated. And even those who are Atmarama or fixed up in trance do also take shelter of this Maya or internal energy. Devotional service mentioned as Bhaktiyoga is the function of the internal energy; as such there is no place for the inferior energy or material energy as much as there is no place for darkness in the effulgence of spiritual light. Such internal energy works even superior to the spiritual bliss attainable in the conception of impersonal Brahman. As it is stated in the Bhagwat Geeta that such impersonal Brahman effulgence is also an emanation from the Absolute Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna. The Parama Purusha cannot be anyone except Sri Krishna Himself as it will be explained in the later slokas.
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=bhakti&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#bhakti#/i# — devotional service; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yogena&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yogena#/i# — by the process of linking up; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=manasi&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#manasi#/i# — upon the mind; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=samyak&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#samyak#/i# — perfectly; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=praṇihite&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#praṇihite#/i# — engaged in and fixed upon; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=amale&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#amale#/i# — without any matter; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=apaśyat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#apaśyat#/i# — saw; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=puruṣam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#puruṣam#/i# — the Personality of Godhead; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=pūrṇam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#pūrṇam#/i# — absolute; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=māyām&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#māyām#/i# — energy; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ca&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ca#/i# — also; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tat#/i# — His; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=apāśrayam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#apāśrayam#/i# — under full control.
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Thus he fixed his mind, perfectly engaging it by linking it in devotional service [bhakti-yoga] without any tinge of materialism, and thus he saw the Absolute Personality of Godhead along with His external energy, which was under full control.
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Perfect vision of the Absolute Truth is possible only by the linking process of devotional service. This is also confirmed in the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i#. One can perfectly realize the Absolute Truth Personality of Godhead only by the process of devotional service, and one can enter into the kingdom of God by such perfect knowledge. Imperfect realization of the Absolute by the partial approach of the impersonal Brahman or localized Paramātmā does not permit anyone to enter into the kingdom of God. Śrī Nārada advised Śrīla Vyāsadeva to become absorbed in transcendental meditation on the Personality of Godhead and His activities. Śrīla Vyāsadeva did not take notice of the effulgence of Brahman because that is not absolute vision. The absolute vision is the Personality of Godhead, as it is confirmed in the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# (BG 7.19): #i#vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti#/i#. In the #i#Upaniṣads#/i# also it is confirmed that Vāsudeva, the Personality of Godhead, is covered by the golden glowing #i#hiraṇmayena pātreṇa#/i# veil of impersonal Brahman, and when that curtain is removed by the mercy of the Lord the real face of the Absolute is seen. The Absolute is mentioned here as the #i#puruṣa#/i#, or person. The Absolute Personality of Godhead is mentioned in so many Vedic literatures, and in the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i#, the #i#puruṣa#/i# is confirmed as the eternal and original person. The Absolute Personality of Godhead is the perfect person. The Supreme Person has manifold energies, out of which the internal, external and marginal energies are specifically important. The energy mentioned here is the external energy, as will be clear from the statements of her activities. The internal energy is there along with the Absolute Person as the moonlight is there with the moon. The external energy is compared to darkness because it keeps the living entities in the darkness of ignorance. The word #i#apāśrayam#/i# suggests that this energy of the Lord is under full control. The internal potency or superior energy is also called #i#māyā#/i#, but it is spiritual #i#māyā#/i#, or energy exhibited in the absolute realm. When one is under the shelter of this internal potency, the darkness of material ignorance is at once dissipated. And even those who are #i#ātmārāma#/i#, or fixed in trance, take shelter of this #i#māyā#/i#, or internal energy. Devotional service, or #i#bhakti-yoga#/i#, is the function of the internal energy; thus there is no place for the inferior energy, or material energy, just as there is no place for darkness in the effulgence of spiritual light. Such internal energy is even superior to the spiritual bliss attainable in the conception of impersonal Brahman. It is stated in the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# that the impersonal Brahman effulgence is also an emanation from the Absolute Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The #i#parama-puruṣa#/i# cannot be anyone except Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, as will be explained in the later #i#ślokas.#/i#
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