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of worshipping the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sacrifices contained in the ritualistic portion of the literature are to satisfy the Supreme Lord Vishnu, because  Yajna , sacrifice, is specifically meant to satisfy Vishnu. Vishnu's Name is also  Yajneshwara , or Lord of the Sacrifices.
The neophytes are not all on the transcendental level, and therefore, according to their situations in the different modes of material Nature, they are advised to worship different types of demigods so that, gradually, they may rise to the transcendental plane and be engaged in the devotional service of Vishnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For example, it may be said that some of the neophytes are attached to flesh-eating; and for them the  Puranas  prescribe that they can eat flesh after offering it to the deity Kali.
The philosophical sections of the Vedic hymns are meant to enable one to distinguish the Supreme Personality of Godhead from Maya. After indicating the position of Maya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is approached in pure devotional service. That is the purpose of philosophical speculation. This is confirmed in the  Bhagavad Gita  in the Seventh Chapter:  Bahunam janmanam ante : "The philosophical speculators and empiric philosophers, after speculating for many, many births, ultimately come unto the Supreme Lord Krishna, and accept that Vasudeva (Krishna) is everything." Therefore, all Vedic rituals and different types of worship or philosophical speculation ultimately aim at Krishna.
The Lord then told Sanatan Goswami about Krishna's multiforms and His unlimited opulence. He also described the nature of the spiritual manifestation, the material manifestation, and the manifestation of the living entity. He also informed Sanatan Goswami that the planets in the Spiritual Sky, known as  Vaikunthas , and the Universes of the material manifestation, are to be known as different types of manifestations; for they are creative manifestations of the two different types of energies—namely, the material energy and the spiritual energy. Therefore, as far as Krishna Himself is concerned, He is directly situated in His spiritual energy, or specifically in His internal potency.
To help us understand the difference between the manifestation of the spiritual energy and the material energy, there is clear analysis of the two in the Second Canto of  Srimad Bhagwatam . Also, Sukadeva Goswami, by commenting on Verse One of the Tenth Canto, makes a similar clear, analytical study. Lord Chaitanya accepts Sukadeva Goswami as an authorized commentator on the  Srimad Bhagwatam . Therefore He quotes his writing in this connection; and He explains that in the Tenth Canto of the  Bhagwatam