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with the same intentions—of getting advanced into the different planets of the different types of demigods. And, lastly, there are the activities of reaching the Absolute Truth in His impersonal Feature, to become One with Him.
The impersonal aspect of the Absolute Truth is not the last word. Above the impersonal Feature is the  Paramatma , or Supersoul, aspect, and above that there is the Personal quality of the Absolute Truth.  Srimad Bhagwatam  gives us information about the Absolute Truth in His Personal quality, beyond the impersonal aspect. It is therefore greater than the topics of impersonal philosophical speculations, and as such,  Srimad Bhagwatam  is given higher status than the  Jnanakanda  division of the Vedas. It is higher than the  Karmakanda  division as well as the  Jnanakanda  division and it is above the  Upashanakanda  division, because  Srimad Bhagwatam  recommends the worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna, the Divine Son of Vasudeva. In the  Karmakanda  of the Vedas there is competition for supremacy in reaching the heavenly planets for better sense gratification. And the same competition is there in the  Jnanakanda  or  Upashanakandas . But  Srimad Bhagwatam  is above all of them because It aims at the Supreme Truth, the Substance or the Root of all categories. In other words, from  Srimad Bhagwatam  we can know the Substance as well as the relativities in the true sense and prespective. The Substance is the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all emanations from Him are relativities in different forms of energies. The living entities are also related to all different types of His energies, and therefore nothing is different from the Substance. But, at the same time, the energies are different from the Substance. This concept is not self-contradictory.  Srimad Bhagwatam  explicitly deals with this simultaneously one and different philosophy of the  Vedanta Sutra , which begins with the  Janmadyasya Sutra .
Such knowledge of the simultaneously one and different nature of the Absolute Truth is really for the well-being of the knower. Otherwise the mental speculators mislead the people wrongly establishing the energy as Absolute. When it is understood, the truth becomes more pleasing than the imperfect concept of monism or dualism. Development of this consciousness leads one at once to the stage of freedom from the threefold miseries. The threefold miseries are 1. in relation to the body and the mind, 2. in relation to our dealings with other beings, and 3. in relation to the acts of providence, over which we have no control.
Srimad Bhagwatam  begins from the surrender of the living entity  unto the Absolute Person , with clear consciousness of the  devotee's oneness with the Absolute , and, at the same time, his awareness of his eternal position of servitorship toward