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spiritual variegatedness which is so adamantly denied
by the monist class of so-called svamis.

As stated before, the Supreme Lord is sac-cid-
ananda-vigraha, joyful by nature, and therefore He
expands Himself by His different energies, parts,
and differentiated and plenary portions. The Supreme
Lord is the Absolute Truth, and He is one without a
second, but He also includes His diverse energies,
parts, and plenary portions which are simultaneously
one with and different from Him. Because He is
joyful by nature, He expands Himself in diverse ways,
and the activities of these expansions are called His
transcendental pastimes or His lila. These pastimes,
however, are not blind and inert; they exhibit full
sense, independence, and freedom of action and
reaction. The complexities of the actions and the
reactions of the diverse energies of the Absolute
Truth constitute the subject matter of a vast science
called the transcendental science of God, and the
Bhagavad-gita is the ABC or primary book of knowl-
edge for students interested in that science. Every
intelligent human being should become interested in
this transcendental science; indeed, according to the
opinions of the sages, human life is only meant for
learning this science. The opening words of the
Vedanta-siittra proclaim: “Now is the time to inquire
about Brahman.”

Human life by nature is full of suffering, and
lower life forms are even more miserable. Any sane
man with properly discriminating senses can under-
stand that life in the material world is full of miseries
and that no one is free from the actions and reactions
