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artificial and imaginary, but because we belong to the sect, therefore we took it for granted to be the right interpretation. We shall be very glad to hear You if You explain further the  Vedanta Sutra  by direct interpretation.”
After this, Lord Chaitanya explained each and every verse of the  Vedanta  by direct interpretation. He thus explained the word  Brahman . Brahman means the greatest, and the direct interpretation of greatest is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Greatest means full with six opulences. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Reservoir of all wealth, all fame, all strength, all beauty, all knowledge, and all renunciation. When Lord Krishna was present Personally on the Earth, He exhibited these six opulences in full. Nobody was richer than Lord Krishna, nobody was more learned than Krishna, nobody was more beautiful than Krishna, nobody was stronger than Krishna, nobody was more famous than Krishna, and nobody was more renounced than Krishna. Therefore the Supreme Personality of Krishna is the Supreme Brahman. This is confirmed in the  Bhagavad Gita , Tenth Chapter, when Arjuna thus addressed Him: “You are  Param Brahman ,” the Supreme Brahman. Therefore, Brahman means the Greatest, and the greatest means the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. He is the Shelter of the Absolute Truth,  Para Tattwa , because He is Param Brahman. But, at the same time, in all His opulences and exhibitions of wealth, fame, strength, beauty, knowledge and renunciation, there is nothing material. Everything spiritual and transcendental in all the Vedic verses and hymns indicates that Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. Wherever, therefore, the word  Brahman  appears in the  Vedas , it should be understood to indicate Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The intelligent person at once replaces the Name  Krishna  wherever there is the word  Brahman .
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental to the material modes of Nature, but He is fully qualified with transcendental qualities. To accept the Supreme as impersonal is to deny the manifestation of spiritual energies. When the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Brahman, is full with spiritual energies, and somebody simply accepts His impersonal exhibition of spiritual energy, then he does not accept this Absolute Truth in full. To accept It in full means to accept the spiritual variegatedness also, which is transcendental to the material modes of Nature. Therefore, failing to indicate the Supreme Lord, the impersonalist conception is incomplete.
The approved method of understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, is the path of devotional service, as is confirmed in every Vedic