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there. In  Bhagwatam  also the subject matter is divided into three: to establish the eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord, how to act in that relationship, and, lastly, how to achieve the highest benefit from it.
The four verses dealing with  Ahameva asam agrey  are the gist of the whole  Bhagwatam , and this is very nicely explained as follows: “I am the Supreme Center of relationship of all living entities, and My knowledge is the Supreme Knowledge, and the process by which I can be achieved by the living entity is called  Abhidheya . And, by the  Abhidheya  process, one attains to the highest perfection of life, love of Godhead. When one attains that stage of life, love of Godhead, then his life becomes perfect.” The explanation of these four verses is given in the  Srimad Bhagwatam .
In this connection Lord Chaitanya gave a short description of the principles of the four slokas of  Srimad Bhagwatam  as follows: Nobody can understand the constitutional position of the Supreme Lord—how He is situated, what are His transcendental qualities, what are His transcendental activities, how He is full with six kinds of opulences. These things cannot be understood by mental speculators or by one’s academic education. These things are to be understood by the mercy of the Lord, as has been stated in the  Bhagavad Gita : one who is fortunate enough to be favored by the Supreme Lord can understand all these explanations by the mercy of the Lord.
The Lord existed before the material Creation; therefore the material ingredients and Nature and the living entities all emanated from Him, and again after dissolution they rest in Him. When the Creation is correct it is maintained by Him; at the same time, whatever manifestation we see, that is only a transformation of the external energy. When the external energy is withdrawn by the Supreme Lord, then everything enters into Him. In the first verse of  Ahameva , the word,  Aham , I, is mentioned three times. That is to stress that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is full with all opulences. For anyone, therefore, who cannot understand or does not believe in the transcendental Nature and Form of the Supreme Lord, and who says He is without any Form— Aham  is stated three times just to chastise him.
The Lord possesses His internal energy, besides His external, marginal and relative energies, as well as the manifestation of His cosmic world and the living entities. The external energy is manifested by the qualitative modes, or gunas, of material Nature. One who can understand the nature of the living entity in the Spiritual World can actually understand  Vedyam , or perfect knowledge. One cannot understand the Supreme Lord simply by seeing the material energy and the conditioned soul. But when one is in perfect knowl-