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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 28]
less advanced person, however, has to go to the temple, and as long as he does not go to the temple he is unable to see the form of the Lord. Either by hearing, seeing or meditating, the objective is the transcendental form of the Lord; there is no question of voidness or impersonalism. The Lord can bestow the blessings of transcendental pleasure upon either the visitor of the temple, the meditator-yogī or one who hears about the Lord's transcendental form from scriptures like the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  or  Bhagavad-gītā . There are nine processes for executing devotional service, of which  smaraṇam , or meditation, is one.  Yogīs  take advantage of the process of  smaraṇam , whereas  bhakti-yogīs  take special advantage of the process of hearing and chanting.
TEXT 27
बाह्यं मन्दरगिरेः परिवर्तनेन निर्णिक्तबाहुवलयानधिलोकपालान्। सश्चिन्तयेद्यशतारमसद्यतेजः शुङ्कं च तत्कारसरोरुहराजदंसम् ॥२७॥
bāhūmś ca mandara-gireḥ parivartanena nirṇikta-bāhu-valayān adhiloka-pālān sañcintayed daśa-śatāram asahya-tejaḥ śaṅkham ca tat-kara-saroruha-rāja-hamsam
bāhūn —the arms;  ca —and;  mandara-gireḥ —of Mount Mandara;  parivartanena —by the revolving;  nirṇikta —polished;  bāhu-valayān —the arm ornaments;  adhiloka-pālān —the source of the controllers of the universe;  sañcintayet —one should meditate on;  daśa-śata-aram —the Sudarśana disc (ten hundred spokes);  asahya-tejaḥ —dazzling luster;  śaṅkham —the conch;  ca —also;  tat-kara —in the hand of the Lord;  saroruha —lotuslike;  rāja-hamsam —like a swan.
TRANSLATION
The yogī should further meditate upon the Lord's four arms, which are the source of all the powers of the demigods who control the various functions of material nature. Then the yogī should concentrate on the polished ornaments which were burnished by Mount Mandara as it revolved. He should also duly contemplate the Lord's discus, the Sudarśana cakra, which contains 1,000 spokes and a dazzling luster, as well as the conch, which looks like a swan in His lotuslike palm.