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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 6]
namely the emperic philosophers, the mystics, and the fruitive workers, all basically have some demand, and as such they cannot be pacified. The fruitive worker wants reward for his work, the mystic wants some perfection of life, and the empiric philosopher wants to merge in the existence of the Lord. Somehow or other, as long as there is a demand for sense satisfaction, there is no chance for pacification; on the contrary, by unnecessary dry speculative arguments, the whole matter becomes distorted, and thus the Lord moves still further away from our understanding. The dry speculators, however, because of their following the principles of austerity and penance, can have knowledge of the impersonal features of the Lord to some extent, but there is no chance of their understanding. His ultimate form as Govinda because only the  amalātmanas , or the completely sinless persons, can accept pure devotional service of the Lord, as is confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 7.28):
yeṣām tv antagatam pāpam janānām puṇya-karmaṇām te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante mām dṛḍha-vratāḥ
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आद्योऽवतारः पुरुषः परस्य  
 कालः स्वभावः सदसन्मनश्च ।  
 द्रव्यं विकारो गुण इन्द्रियाणि  
 विराट् स्वराट् स्थास्तु चरिष्णुभूम्नः ॥४२॥
ādyo vatāraḥ puruṣaḥ parasya 
    kālaḥ svabhāvaḥ sad-asan-manaś ca 
    dravyam vikāro guṇa indriyāṇi 
    virāṭ svarāṭ sthāsnu cariṣṇu bhūmnaḥ
ādyaḥ—first; avatāraḥ—incarnation; puruṣaḥ—Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu; parasya—of the Lord; kālaḥ—time; svabhāvaḥ—space; sat—resultant; asat—cause; manaḥ—mind; ca—also; dravyam—elements; vikāraḥ—material ego; guṇaḥ—modes of nature; indriyāṇi—senses; virāṭ—the complete whole body; svarāṭ—Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu; sthāsnu—immovable; cariṣṇu—movable; bhūmnaḥ—of the Supreme Lord.