CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Personal and Impersonal Realization
The  Puranas  are called the supplementary Vedic literature, because sometimes in the original Vedas the subject matter is too difficult to be understood by the common man. The  Puranas , therefore, explain things nicely by different stories and historical incidents. So, in the  Srimad Bhagwatam  it is stated in the Tenth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter, that Maharaj Nanda and the cowherd men and inhabitants of Vrindaban generally are very fortunate because the Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Gobhead, full of bliss, is now engaged there in His eternal Pastimes as their Friend.
According to  Svetasvatara Upanishad , the  Mantra of Apanipado javano grahita  comfirms that although Brahman has no materially created hands and legs, still He walks very stately, and He accepts everything offered to Him. These words suggest that He has transcendental limbs of the body, and therefore He is not impersonal. The person who does not understand the Vedic principles simply stresses the impersonal material features of the Supreme Absolute Truth, and thus unceremoniously calls the Absolute Truth imper-
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