Mantra Fifteen
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to attract the dry speculators in the transcendental line, as well as the acrobats of the so-called  haṭha-yoga  system, trying to find the Absolute Truth.
Of the childhood play of the Lord with His playmates, the cowherd boys, Śukadeva Gosvāmī in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  said:
The Personality of Godhead, Who is perceived as the impersonal  Brahman  of bliss, Who is worshiped as the Supreme Lord by the devotees, and Who is considered an ordinary human being by the mundane, played with the cowherd boys who had achieved that position after a huge accumulation of pious deeds.
Thus the Lord is ever engaged in transcendental loving activities along with His spiritual associates in the various relationships of  śānta , calmness,  dāsya , servitorship,  sākhya , friendship,  vātsālya , paternal affection, and  mādhurya , conjugal love.
It is said that the Lord never goes out of the  Vṛndāvana-dhāma , and so it may be asked how He manages the affairs of His different creations. This is answered in the  Gītā : He pervades all the material creation by His plenary part, known as the  Puruṣa  incarnation. The Lord has nothing to do with material creation, maintenance and destruction, but He causes it to be done by His plenary expansion, this  Paramātman  or Supersoul feature. Every living entity is known as  ātman , soul. The principal  Ātman , Who controls them all, is  Paramātman —Supersoul.
The whole system of God realization is a great science. The materialists can only analyze and meditate on the twenty-four factors of the material creation. They have very little information of the  Puruṣa , the Lord. The impersonal transcendentalists are simply bewildered by the glaring effulgence of the  Brahma-jyoti . If one wants to see the Absolute Truth in full, one