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The Renunciation of Kardama Muni
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eternal, spiritual form, then he can understand the nature of the Personality of Godhead. Since the less intelligent cannot understand this point, it is stressed everywhere again and again. Simply by seeing the form of the Lord as He presents Himself by His own internal potency as Kṛṣṇa or Rāma or Kapila, one can directly see the  brahmajyoti  because the  brahmajyoti  is no more than the effulgence of His bodily luster. Since the sunshine is the luster of the sun planet, by seeing the sun one automatically sees the sunshine; similarly, by seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead one simultaneously sees and experiences the Paramātmā feature as well as the impersonal Brahman feature of the Supreme.
The  Bhāgavatam  has already enunciated that the Absolute Truth is present in three features—in the beginning as the impersonal Brahman, in the next stage as the Paramātmā in everyone's heart, and, at last, as the ultimate realization of the Absolute Truth, Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One who sees the Supreme Person can automatically realize the other features, namely the Paramātmā and Brahman features of the Lord. The words used here are  viśoko 'bhayam ṛcchasi . Simply by seeing the Personality of Godhead one realizes everything, and the result is that he becomes situated on the platform where there is no lamentation and no fear. This can be attained simply by devotional service to the Personality of Godhead.
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मात्र आच्यात्मिकीं विद्यां शमनीं सर्वकर्मणाम् । वितरिष्ये यया चासौ भयं चातितरिष्यति ॥४०॥
mātra ādhyātmikīm vidyām śamanīm sarva-karmaṇām vitariṣye yayā cāsau bhayam cātitariṣyati
mātre —to My mother;  ādhyātmikīm —which opens the door of spiritual life;  vidyām —knowledge;  śamanīm —ending;  sarva-karmaṇām —all fruitive activities;  vitariṣye —I shall give;  yayā —by which;  ca —also;  asau —she;  bhayam —fear;  ca —also;  atitariṣyati —will overcome.
TRANSLATION
I shall also describe this sublime knowledge, which is the door to spiritual life, to My mother, so that she also can attain perfection and self-realization,