Text 34]
The Residents of Vârânsi Become Vaisnavas
313
TRANSLATION
“The word Brahman means ‘the greatest.’ This means that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is full in all six opulences. However, if we take the one-sided impersonalist view. His fullness is diminished.
PURPORT
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is originally the Supreme Person. The Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.4):
mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣv avaṣthitaḥ
“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.”
The potency of Kṛṣṇa that is spread everywhere is impersonal. The sunlight is the impersonal expansion of the sun globe and the sun-god. If we simply take one side of the Supreme Personality of Godhead—His impersonal effulgence—that one side does not fully explain the Absolute Truth. Impersonal appreciation of the Absolute Truth is one-sided and incomplete. One should also accept the other side, the personal side—Bhagavān.  Brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate . One should not be satisfied simply by understanding the Brahman feature of the Personality of Godhead. One must also know the Lord's personal feature. That is complete understanding of the Absolute Truth.
TEXT 34
শ্রেণী-পুরাণ  কছে—কৃষ্ণের চিচ্ছজ্ঞি-বিলাস। ।
তাছা নাছি মানি, পণ্ডিত করে উপহাস ৷৷ ৩৪ ৷৷
śruti-purāṇa kahe —kṛṣṇera cic-chakti-vilāsa tāhā nāhi māni, paṇḍita kare upahāsa
SYNONYMS
śruti-purāṇa kahe —the Vedic literatures and the  Purāṇas  confirm;  kṛṣṇera —of Lord Kṛṣṇa;  cit-śakti-vilāsa —activities of spiritual potencies;  tāhā nāhi māni —not accepting that;  paṇḍita kare upahāsa —so-called scholars play jokes without perfect understanding.