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Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
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one who has realized and seen the Supreme Lord has attained all perfection because everything is included there in that highest perfectional stage. The impersonalists and the pseudo mystics, however, cannot reach this state.
TEXT 22
मनीषितानुमात्रोऽयं मम लोकावलोकनम् । यदुपश्रुत्य रहसि चकर्थ परमं तपः ॥२२॥
manīṣitānubhāvo'yaṁ mama lokāvalokanam yad upaśrutya rahasi cakartha paramaṁ tapaḥ
manīṣita—ingenuity; anubhāvaḥ—perception; ayam—this; mama—My; loka—abode; avalokanam—seeing by actual experience; yat—because; upaśrutya—hearing; rahasi—in great penance; cakartha—having performed; paramam—highest; tapaḥ—penance.
TRANSLATION
The highest perfectional ingenuity is the personal perception of My abodes, and this has been possible because of your submissive attitude in the performance of severe penance on My order.
PURPORT
The highest perfectional stage of life is to know the Lord by actual perception, by the grace of the Lord. This can be attained by everyone who is willing to discharge the act of devotional service to the Lord as enjoined in the revealed scriptures that are standard and accepted by the bona fide  ācāryas , spiritual masters. For example, the  Bhagavad-gītā  is the approved Vedic literature accepted by all the great  ācāryas , such as Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja, Madhva, Caitanya, Viśvanātha, Baladeva, Siddhānta Sarasvatī and many others. In that  Bhagavad-gītā  the Personality of God-head, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, asks that one should always be mindful of Him, one should always be His devotee, one should always worship Him only, and one should always bow down before the Lord. And by doing so one is sure to