Why Study the  Vedantra Sutra?
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nical, and only liberated persons who have gradually attained to the stage of  Paramhansa , as referred to before, can transcendentally relish the worshippable  Rasa  Dance.
Srila Vyasadeva, therefore, gives us the chance for gradual development of spiritual realization before we can actually relish the essence of the Pastimes of the Lord, He therefore purposely invokes the Gayatri Mantra, “Dheemahi.” This Gayatri Mantra is meant for the spiritually advanced people. When one has attained success in the matter of chanting the Gayatri Mantra he can enter into the transcendental position of the Lord. One must acquire the Brahminical qualities, or be perfectly situated in the quality of goodness of the modes of material Nature, in order to chant the Gayatri Mantra successfully, and then attain to the stage of transcendentally realizing the Lord, His Name, His Fame, His Qualities, etc.  Srimad Bhagwatam  is the narration of the  Swarupa  or Form of the Lord, manifested by His internal potency; and this potency is distinguished from the external potency, which has manifested the cosmic world which is within our experience. Srila Vyasadeva makes a clear distinction between the two in the 1st verse of the First Chapter.
He says there that the manifestation of the internal potency is factual reality, whereas the external manifested energy in the form of material existence is temporary and illusory, no more real than the mirage in the desert. In the mirage of the desert there is no actual water. By the interaction of something else there is the appearance of water. Real water is somewhere else. Similarly, the manifestive cosmic Creation appears like reality, but the true reality, of which this is but a reflection only, is somewhere else in the Spiritual World, in which there are no mirages. Absolute Truth is there, and not here. Here everything is relative truth, one seeming truth depending on another. This cosmic Creation is an interactory resultant of the three modes of Nature, and the temporary manifestations are so created as to present an illusion of reality to the bewildered mind of the conditioned soul, appearing as so many species of life, including the higher demigods like Brahma, Indra, Chandra, etc. In fact there is no reality in the manifested world, but it appears so on account of the True Reality in the Spiritual World, where the Personality of Godhead eternally exists with His transcendental paraphernalia.
The chief engineer of a complicated construction does not personally take part in the construction, but it is he only who knows all the nooks and corners of the construction, because everything is done by his direction only. He knows everything about the construction directly and indirectly. Similarly, the Personality of Godhead, Who is the Supreme Engineer of this cosmic Crea-