Text 39]
The First Step in God Realization
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TRANSLATION
One should concentrate his mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who alone is distributed in so many manifestations, as much as ordinary persons create thousands of manifestations in dream. One must concentrate the mind on Him who is the only all-blissful Absolute Truth. Otherwise one will be misled and will cause his own degradation.
PURPORT
In this verse, the process of devotional service is indicated by the great Gosvāmī, Śrīla Śukadeva. He tries to impress upon us that instead of diverting our attention to several branches of self-realization, we should concentrate upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the supreme object of realization, worship and devotion. Self-realization is, as it were, offering a fight for eternal life against the material struggle for existence, and therefore by the illusory grace of the external energy, the  yogī  or the devotee is faced with many allurements which can entangle a great fighter again in the bondage of material existence. A  yogī  can attain miraculous successes in the matter of material achievements, and they are called  aṇimā ,  laghimā , etc., by which one can become more minute than the minutest or lighter than the lightest, or in the ordinary sense, may achieve material benedictions in the shape of wealth and women. But he is warned against such allurements because to become again entangled in such illusory pleasure means degradation of the self and further imprisonment in the material world. By this warning, one should follow one's vigilant intelligence only.
The Supreme Lord is one, and His expansions are various. He is, therefore, the Supersoul of everything. When a man sees anything, he must know that his seeing is secondary and the Lord's seeing is primary. One cannot see anything without the Lord's having first seen it. That is the instruction of the  Vedas  and the  Upaniṣads . So whatever we see or do, the Supersoul of all acts of seeing or doing is the Lord. This theory of simultaneous oneness and difference between the individual soul and the Supersoul is propounded by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the philosophy of  acintya-bhedābhedā-tattva . The  virāṭa rūpa , or the gigantic feature of the Supreme Lord, includes everything materially manifested, and therefore the  virāṭa  or gigantic feature of the Lord is the Supersoul of all living and nonliving entities. But the  virāṭa rūpa  is also the manifestation of Nārāyaṇa or Viṣṇu, and going further on and on one will eventually see