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themselves liberated although their intelligence is not yet purified. Although these living entities undergo severe austerities to rise to the platform of Siddhaloka, they cannot remain there perpetually, for they are bereft of  ānanda  (bliss). Even though these living entities attain the  brahma-bhūta  stage and realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead through His bodily effulgence, they nonetheless fall down due to neglecting the Lord's service. They do not properly utilize whatever little knowledge they have of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Not attaining  ānanda , or bliss, they come down to the material world to enjoy. This is certainly a falldown for one who is actually liberated. The  bhaktas  consider such a falldown equal to achieving a place in hell.
The followers of the Patañjali yoga system actually want to merge into the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This indicates that they do not want to engage in His service despite their knowledge of Him, and thus their position is even more abominable than that of those who want to merge into the Lord's effulgence. These yogīs meditate on the four-handed Viṣṇu form of the Lord in order to merge into His body. The Patañjali system describes the form of the Lord as  kleśa-karma-vipākāśayair aparāmṛṣṭaḥ puruṣa-viśeṣa īśvaraḥ : "The Supreme Personality of Godhead is a person who does not partake of a miserable material life." The yogīs accept the eternity of the Supreme Person in their  mantra, sa pūrveṣām api guruḥ kālānavac chedāt : "Such a person is always supreme and is not influenced by the element of time." The followers of the Patañjali system therefore accept the eternity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, yet, according to them:  puruṣārtha-śūnyānāṁ pratiprasavaḥ kaivalyaṁ svarūpa-pratiṣṭhā vā citi-śaktir iti . They believe that in the perfectional stage, the conception of  puruṣa  is vanquished. According to their description:  citi-śaktir iti . They believe that when one becomes perfect, he cannot remain a person. This yoga system is therefore abominable because its final conception is impersonal. In the beginning, these yogīs accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but they ultimately give up this idea in order to become impersonal. They are most unfortunate because although they have a personal conception of the Absolute Truth, they neglect to render devotional service to the Lord and thus they fall down again into the material world. This is supported by the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (10.2.32).  Āruhya-kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ patanty adho 'nādṛta-yuṣmad-aṅghrayaḥ : due to neglecting the lotus feet of the Lord, these yogīs again fall down into the material existence ( patanty adhaḥ ). Consequently this path of yoga is more abominable than the impersonalists' path. This conclusion is also supported by Lord Kapiladeva in the following verse from  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (3.29.13).
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