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truly  vipaścit , learned, are those who have reached the platform of understanding and observing the Supreme Personality of Godhead in any condition of life.  Premāṇjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti  ( Brahma-saṁhitā  5.38). Learned devotees accept even conditions of distress as representing the presence of the Supreme Lord. When a devotee is in distress, he sees that the Lord has appeared as distress just to relieve or purify the devotee from the contamination of the material world. While one is within this material world, one is in various conditions, and therefore a devotee sees a condition of distress as but another feature of the Lord.  Tat te 'nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṇaḥ  ( Bhāg.  10.14.8). A devotee, therefore, regards distress as a great favor of the Lord because he understands that he is being cleansed of contamination.  Teṣām ahaṁ samuddhartā mṛtyu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt  ( Bg.  12.7). The appearance of distress is a negative process intended to give the devotee relief from this material world, which is called  mṛtyu-saṁsāra , or the constant repetition of birth and death. To save a surrendered soul from repeated birth and death, the Lord purifies him of contamination by offering him a little distress. This cannot be understood by a nondevotee, but a devotee can see this because he is  vipaścit , or learned. A nondevotee, therefore, is perturbed in distress, but a devotee welcomes distress as another feature of the Lord.  Sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma . A devotee can actually see that there is only the Supreme Personality of Godhead and no second entity.  Ekam evādvitīyam . There is only the Lord, who presents Himself in different energies.
Persons who are not in real knowledge think that  Brahmā  is the creator,  Viṣṇu  the maintainer and  Śiva  the annihilator and that the different demigods are intended to fulfill diverse purposes. Thus they create diverse purposes and worship various demigods to have these purposes fulfilled ( kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ prapadyante 'nya-devatāḥ ). A devotee, however, knows that these various demigods are but different parts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that these parts need not be worshiped. As the Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.23):
ye 'py anya-devatā bhaktā yajante śraddhayānvitāḥ te 'pi mām eva kaunteya yajanty avidhi-pūrvakam