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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 9]
ception is completely removed. Even the impersonalist's object of destination is Kṛṣṇa as the impersonal  jyoti , and the  yogī 's destination of Paramātmā is also Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is both  brahmajyoti  and localized Paramātmā, but in  brahmajyoti  or Paramātmā there is no Kṛṣṇa or sweet relations with Kṛṣṇa. In His personal feature Kṛṣṇa is both Pārtha-sārathi and Śyāmasundara of Vṛndāvana, but in His impersonal feature He is neither in the  brahmajyoti  nor in the Paramātmā. Great  mahātmas  like Bhīṣmadeva realize all these different features of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and therefore they worship Lord Kṛṣṇa, knowing Him as the origin of all features.
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सूत उवाच
कृष्ण एवं भगवति मनोवाग्दृष्टिवृत्तिभिः । आत्मन्यात्मानमावेश्य सोऽन्तःश्वास उपारमत्॥४३॥
sūta uvāca   kṛṣṇa evam bhagavati   mano-vāg-dṛṣṭi-vṛttibhiḥ   ātmany ātmānam āveśya   so 'ntaḥ-śvāsa upāramat
sūtaḥ uvāca —Sūta Gosvāmī said;  kṛṣṇaḥ —Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  evam —only;  bhagavati —unto Him;  manaḥ —mind;  vāk —speech;  dṛṣṭi —sight;  vṛttibhiḥ —activities;  ātmani —unto the Supersoul;  ātmānam —the living being;  āveśya —having merged in;  saḥ —he;  antaḥ-śvāsaḥ —inhaling;  upāramat —became silent.
TRANSLATION
Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus Bhīṣmadeva merged himself in the Supersoul Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with his mind, speech, sight and actions, and thus he became silent, and his breathing stopped.
PURPORT
The stage attained by Bhīṣmadeva while quitting His material body is called  nirvikalpa-samādhi  because he merged his self into thinking of the Lord and his mind into remembering His different activities. He chanted