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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
becomes liberated from the modes of material nature after surrendering unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead is illustrated by a sleeping man within a room. When a man is sleeping, everyone sees that he is present within the room, but actually the man himself is not within that body, for while sleeping a man forgets his bodily existence, although others may see that his body is present. Similarly, a liberated person engaged in devotional service of the Lord may be seen by others to be engaged in the household duties of the material world, but since his consciousness is fixed in Krṣṇa he does not live within this world. His engagements are different, exactly as the sleeping man's engagements are different from his bodily engagements. It is confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  that a devotee engaged full time in the transcendental loving service of the Lord has already surpassed the influence of the three modes of material nature. He is already situated on the Brahman platform of spiritual realization, although he appears to be living with the body or within the material world.
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī stated in this connection in his  Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu  that the person whose only desire is to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead may be situated in any condition in the material world, but he is to be understood as  jīvanmukta , that is to say he is to be considered liberated while living within the body or the material world. The conclusion, therefore, is that a person fully engaged in Krṣṇa consciousness is a liberated person. Such a person has actually nothing to do with the material world. Those who are not in Krṣṇa consciousness are called  karmīs  and  jīānīs , and they hover on the bodily and mental platform and thus are not liberated. This situation is called  kaivalya-nirasta-yoni . A person situated on the transcendental platform becomes freed from the repetition of birth and death. This is also confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā , Fourth Chapter. Simply by knowing the transcendental nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krṣṇa, one becomes free from the chains of the repetition of birth and death, and after quitting his present body he goes back home, back to Godhead. This is the conclusion of all the  Vedas . Thus one should surrender unto the lotus feet of Lord Krṣṇa after understanding the prayers offered by the personified  Vedas .
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Volume, Thirty-Second Chapter of Krṣṇa, "Prayers by the Personified Vedas."