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relationship to the Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Personality of Godhead has many parts and parcels; some are called  svāmśas , or His personal expansions, and some are called  vibhinnāmśas , the living entities. All such expansions, both  svāmśas  and  vibhinnāmśas , are emanations from the original Personality of Godhead.  Śvāmśa  expansions are called  Viṣṇu-tattva , whereas the  vibhinnāmśa  expansions are called  jīva-tattva . The different demigods are  jīva-tattva . The conditioned souls are generally put into the activities of the material world for sense gratification; therefore, as stated in the  Bhagavad-gītā , to regulate those who are very much addicted to different kinds of sense gratification the worship of demigods is sometimes recommended. For example, for persons who are very much addicted to meat-eating, the Vedic injunction recommends that after worshiping the form of the goddess Kālī and sacrificing a goat (not any other animal) under  karma-kāṇḍa  regulation, the worshipers may be allowed to eat meat. The idea is not to encourage one to eat meat, but to allow one who is persistent to eat meat under certain restricted conditions. Therefore, worship of the demigods is not worship of the Absolute Truth, but by worshiping the demigods one gradually comes to accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead in an indirect way. This indirect acceptance is described in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as  avidhi .  Avidhi  means not bona fide. Since demigod worship is not bona fide, the impersonalists stress concentration on the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth. King Parīkṣit's question was, which is the ultimate target of Vedic knowledge—this concentration on the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth or concentration on the personal feature? After all, both the impersonal and personal features of the Supreme Lord are beyond our material conception. The impersonal feature of the Absolute, the Brahman effulgence, is but the rays of the personal body of Kṛṣṇa. These rays of the personal body of Kṛṣṇa are cast all over the creation of the Lord, and the portion of the effulgence which is covered by the material cloud is called the created cosmos of the three material qualities— sattva ,  rajas  and  tamas . How can persons who are within this clouded portion called the material world conceive of the Absolute Truth by the speculative method?
In answering King Parīkṣit's question, Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has created the mind, senses and living force for the purpose of sense gratification in transmigration from one kind of body to another, as well as for the purpose of allowing liberation from the material conditions. In other words, the senses, mind and living force can be utilized for sense gratification and transmigration from one body to another or for the matter of liberation. The Vedic