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Bhāgavatam is the Answer
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attainment of salvation, being merged in the impersonal form of the Lord known as  brahmajyoti . Therefore the pure devotees of the Lord are described here as  vipaścita , or the learned who are in the knowledge of the Lord perfectly.
TEXT 36
स वाच्यवाचकतया भगवान् ब्रह्मरूपधृक्। नामरूपक्रिया धत्ते सकर्मार्कमर्कः परः ॥३६॥
sa vācya-vācakatayā   bhagavān brahma-rūpa-dhṛk   nāma-rūpa-kriyā dhatte   sa-karmākarmakaḥ paraḥ
saḥ —He;  vācya —by His forms and activities;  vācakatayā —by His transcendental qualities and entourage;  bhagavān —the Personality of Godhead;  brahma —absolute;  rūpa-dhṛk —by accepting visible forms;  nāma —name;  rūpa —form;  kriyā —pastimes;  dhatte —accepts;  sa-karma —engaged in work;  akarmakaḥ —without being affected;  paraḥ —transcendence.
TRANSLATION
He, the Personality of Godhead, manifests Himself in a transcendental form, being the subject of His transcendental name, quality, pastimes, entourage and transcendental variegatedness. Although He is unaffected by all such activities, He appears to be so engaged.
PURPORT
Whenever there is need of material creation, the transcendental Personality of Godhead accepts forms in the material world for creation, maintenance and destruction, and one should be intelligent enough to know His activities in truth without being biased to conclude that He descends in the material world by accepting a form created by material nature. Any form accepted from the material nature has its affection to everything done in the material world. A conditioned soul who accepts the material form for undergoing a certain term of material activities is subjected to the laws of matter. But here in this verse it is clearly stated that the forms and activities of the Lord, although they appear to be the same as those of