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manifestation from His transcendental body and at the end winds it up within Himself. All the great sages of the Vedic understanding have accepted that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original creator.
“It is sometimes claimed that the impersonal speculations of great philosophers are meant for the advancement of knowledge without religious ritualistic principles. But the religious ritualistic principles are actually meant for the advancement of spiritual knowledge. By performance of religious rituals one ultimately reaches the supreme goal of knowledge by understanding that Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the cause of everything. It is clearly stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  that even those who are advocates of knowledge only, without any religious ritualistic processes, advance in knowledge after many, many lifetimes of speculation and thus come to the conclusion that Vāsudeva is the supreme cause of everything that be. As a result of this achievement of the goal of life, such an advanced learned scholar or philosopher surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Religious ritualistic performances are actually meant to cleanse the contaminated mind in the material world, and the special feature of this age of Kali is that one can easily execute the process of cleansing the mind of contamination by chanting the holy names of God—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare.
“A Vedic injunction states,  sarve vedā yat padamānanti : all Vedic knowledge is searching after the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, another Vedic injunction states,  nārāyaṇa-parā vedāḥ : the Vedas are meant for understanding Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Lord. Similarly,  Bhagavad-gītā  also confirms,  vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ : by all the  Vedas , Kṛṣṇa is to be known. Therefore, the main purpose of understanding the  Vedas , performing Vedic sacrifices and speculating on the  Vedānta-sūtras  is to understand Kṛṣṇa. Accepting the impersonalist view of voidness or the nonexistence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead negates all study of the  Vedas . Impersonal speculation aims at disproving the conclusion of the  Vedas . Therefore any impersonal speculative presentation should be understood to be against the principles of the  Vedas  or standard scriptures. Since the speculation of the impersonalists does not follow the principles of the  Vedas , their conclusion must be considered to be against the Vedic principles. Anything not supported by the Vedic principles must be considered imaginary and lacking in standard proof. Therefore no impersonalist explanation of any Vedic literature can be accepted.
“If one tries to nullify the conclusions of the  Vedas  by accepting an unauthorized scripture or so-called scripture, it will be very hard for him to come to the right conclusion about the Absolute Truth. The system for adjusting two contradictory scriptures is to refer to the  Vedas , for references from the  Vedas  are accepted as final judgments. When we refer to a particular scripture, it must be authorized, and for this authority it must strictly follow the Vedic injunctions. If someone presents an alternative doctrine he himself has manufactured, that doctrine will prove itself useless, for any doctrine that tries to prove that Vedic evidence is meaningless immediately proves itself meaningless. The followers of the  Vedas  unanimously accept the authority of Manu and Parāśara in the disciplinary succession. Their state-