Text 1721
The Lord's Return to Jagannātha Puri
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TRANSLATION
Brahmānanda Bhāratī continued, “Since I have seen You, I have been feeling Lord Kṛṣṇa’s presence in my mind and have been seeing Him before my eyes. I now want to chant the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Over and above this, within my heart I consider You to be Kṛṣṇa, and I am therefore very eager to serve You.
TEXT 1777
বিষমজল কৈল যৈছে দশা আপনার । 
ইহাঁ দেখি’ সেই দশা হইল আমার ॥ ১৭৭ ॥
bilvamangala kaila yaiche daśā āpanāra ihāṅ dekhi’ sei daśā ha-ila āmāra
SYNONYMS
bilva-maṅgala —Bilvamaṅgala;  kaila —did;  yaiche —as;  daśā —condition;  āpanāra —his own;  ihāṅ —here;  dekhi’ —I see;  sei daśā —that condition;  ha-ila —became;  āmāra —mine.
TRANSLATION
“Bilvamaṅgala Ṭākura abandoned his impersonal realization for the realization of the Personality of Godhead. I now see that my condition is similar to his, for it has already changed.”
PURPORT
In his early life, Bilvamaṅgala Țhākura was an impersonalist monist, and he used to meditate upon the impersonal Brahman effulgence. Later he became a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and his explanation for this change is given in a verse [text 178] that is quoted in  Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu . Gradually one comes to the stage of Bhagavān realization, realization of the Supreme Person, after having attained the lower stages of realization—impersonal Brahman realization and localized Paramātmā realization. This is described in  Caitanya-candrāmṛta  (5) by Prabodhā-nanda Sarasvatī:
kaivalyaṁ narakāyate tridaśa-pūr ākāśa-puṣpāyate durdāntendriya-kāla-sarpa-paṭalī protkhāta-daṁṣṭrāyate viśvaṁ pūrṇa-sukhāyate vidhi-mahendrādiś ca kīṭāyate yat-kāruṇya-kaṭākṣa-vaibhava-vatāṁ taṁ gauram eva stamaḥ
Kaivalya , oneness in the effulgence of Brahman, appears hellish to the devotee. The heavenly planets, the abodes of the demigods, appear to a devotee like