Mantra Four 27

has His Personal existence solely in the impersonal

Brahman. Men are accustomed to reach conclusions only

according to their own capacity to understand. But the Supreme

lord is not subject to our limited capacity to understand Him.

It is for this reason that the Upanisads warn us: no one can ap-
proach the Lord by his own limited potency.

In the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that no one, not even the
great rsis and suras, can know Him. So what is there to say
of the asuras, who are not even qualified to understand the ways
of the Lord? All these words mentioned in Mantra Four of
Sri Isopanisad suggest very clearly that the Absolute Truth
is ultimately the Absolute Person; otherwise there would have
been no necessity of mentioning so many varied things in
support of His Personal features.

Individual parts and parcels of the potencies of the Lord,
although having all the symptoms of the Lord Himself, have
limited spheres of activities, and therefore are all limited.
The parts and parcels are never equal to the whole. Therefore
the parts and parcels cannot appreciate the full potency of
the Lord. Foolish and ignorant living beings who are parts
and parcels of the Lord, under the influence of the material
energy, try to make a conjecture on the transcendental position
of the Lord. Sri Isopanisad warns them not to make any mental
speculation about the identity of the Lord. Try to know the
Transcendence from the superior source of the Vedas, which is
already in knowledge of the Transcendence.

Every part of the Complete Whole is endowed with some
particular energy to act, and forgetfulness by that part of
his particular activities is called mdyd, illusion. Sri [sopanisad
has therefore, from the very beginning, warned us that we should
be careful to play the part designated for us by the Lord. This,
however, docs not mean that the individual soul has no initiative
of his own. Because he is the part and parcel of the Lord he
must have the initiative of the Lord as well. Proper use of one’s
initiative, active nature, with intelligence to understand that
