CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Bhattacharya Is Converted
For the impersonalist and void philosophers the next world is senseless eternity and bliss. The void philosophers want to establish that ultimately everything is senseless, and the impersonalists want to establish that the next world is simply knowledge without any activities. In other words, less intelligent salvationists want to carry imperfect knowledge into the perfect sphere of spiritual activity. The impersonalist, having experienced a great disadvantage in material activity, wants to establish spiritual life without activity. He cannot understand the activities of devotional service. Spiritual activity in devotional service is not intelligeble to the void philosophers and impersonalists. The Vaishnava philosophers know perfectly well that the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, having the power of innumerable potencies, can never be impersonal or void. He can present Himself in multiple Forms with innumerable energies, and still He remains Himself as the Absolute Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is competent Himself to maintain His
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