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The Lord in the Heart
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attracted by material enjoyments. As such, persons with a poor fund of knowledge cannot have any conception of the  param ; they try to stick to the varieties of material enjoyments, although they may flatter themselves to be Brahman-realized souls. Such less intelligent persons cannot have any conception of the  param , as mentioned in this verse, and therefore they cannot reach the Supreme. The devotees have full knowledge of the spiritual world, the Personality of Godhead and His transcendental association in unlimited spiritual planets called Vaikuṇṭhalokas. Herein  akuṇṭha-drṣṭiḥ  is mentioned.  Akuṇṭha  and  vaikuṇṭha  convey the same import, and only one who has his aim fixed upon that spiritual world and personal association with the Godhead can give up this material connection even while living in the material world. This  param  and the  paramṁ dhāma  mentioned in several places of the  Bhagavad-gītā  are one and the same thing. One who goes to the  paramṁ dhāma  does not return again to this material world. This is not possible even by reaching the topmost  loka  of the material world.
The life air passes through seven openings, namely two eyes, two nostrils, two ears and one mouth. Generally it passes through the mouth at the time of an ordinary man's death. But the  yogī , as above mentioned, who controls the life air in his own way, generally releases the life air by puncturing the cerebral hole in the head. The  yogī  therefore blocks up all the above-mentioned seven openings, so that naturally the life air will burst forth through the cerebral hole, which is the sure sign of leaving the material connection by the great devotees.
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यदि प्रयास्यन् नृप पारमेष्ट्यं 
  वैहायसानामुत यद् विहोरम् । 
  अष्टाधिपत्यं गुणसन्निवाये 
  सहैव गच्छेन्मनसेन्द्रियैश्च ॥२२॥
yadi prayāsyan nṛpa pārameṣṭhyam 
  vaihāyasānām uta yad vihāram 
  aṣṭādhipatyam guṇa-sannivāye 
  sahaiva gacchen manasendriyaiś ca