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[Canto 9, Ch. 24]
eva vedyaḥ ). To advance in human life, human society must follow the Vedic principles personally demonstrated by Lord Kṛṣṇa in His householder life. The real purpose of Kṛṣṇa's appearance, however, was to manifest how one can take part in loving affairs with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Reciprocations of loving affairs in ecstasy are possible only in Vṛndāvana. Therefore just after His appearance as the son of Vasudeva, the Lord immediately left for Vṛndāvana. In Vṛndāvana, the Lord not only took part in loving affairs with His father and mother, the  gopīs  and the cowherd boys, but also gave liberation to many demons by killing them. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (4.8),  paritrāṇāya sādhūnām vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām : the Lord appears in order to protect the devotees and kill the demons. This was fully exhibited by His personal behavior. In  Bhagavad-gītā  the Lord is understood by Arjuna to be  puruṣam śāśvatam divyam —the eternal, transcendental Supreme Person. Here also we find the words  utpādya teṣu puruṣaḥ . Therefore it is to be concluded that the Absolute Truth is  puruṣa , a person. The impersonal feature is but one of the features of His personality. Ultimately, He is a person; He is not impersonal. And not only is He  puruṣa , a person, but He is the  lilā-puruṣottama , the best of all persons.
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पृथ्व्याः स वै गुरुमरं क्षपयन् कुरुणा-
मन्तःसमुत्थकलिना युधि भूपचम्बः ।
दृष्ट्या विधूय विजये जयमुद्विघोष्य
प्रोच्योद्धवाय च परं समगात् स्वधाम ॥६७॥
pṛthvyāḥ sa vai guru-bharam kṣapayan kurūṇām antaḥ-samuttha-kalinā yudhi bhūpa-camvaḥ dṛṣṭyā vidhūya vijaye jayam udvighoṣya procyoddhavāya ca param samagāt sva-dhāma
pṛthvyāḥ —on the earth;  saḥ —He (Lord Kṛṣṇa);  vai —indeed;  guru-bharam —a great burden;  kṣapayan —completely finishing;  kurūṇām —of the personalities born in the Kuru dynasty;  antaḥ-samuttha-kalinā —by creating enmity between the brothers by disagreement;  yudhi —in the Battle of Kurukṣetra;  bhūpa-camvaḥ —all the demoniac kings;  dṛṣṭyā —