Mantra Seven 39

Bhagavad-gita. Only those who surrender at the Lotus Feet of
the Supreme Lord can overcome the stringent laws of Nature.
If, therefore, we wish to get rid of all sorts of illusion and
anxiety and create unity of all diverse interests, we must bring
God into all our activities.

The results of our activities must be used to serve the
interest of the Lord, and not for any other purpose, because only
by serving the interest of the Lord can we feel the dtma-bhita
interest mentioned here in Sri [sopanisad. This and the Brahma-
bhita interest mentioned in the Bhagavad-gitad are one and the
same thing: The Supreme Atman, or Soul, is the Lord Himself,
and the minute dtman is the living entity. The Supreme Atman
or Paramatman alone maintains all the individual minute beings,
because the Supreme Lord wants to derive pleasure out of their
affection. The father extends himself by his children and main-
tains them in order to derive pleasure. If the children of the
father are obedient to his will, family affairs will run smoothly
with one interest and a pleasing atmosphere. Exactly the same
thing is transcendentally arranged in the Brahman, or Absolute
family of the Param Brahman, the Supreme Spirit.

The Param Brahman is as much a Person as the individual
entities are. None of them are impersonal. Such transcendental
personalities are full of transcendental bliss, knowledge and life
eternal. That is the real position of spiritual existence, and as
soon as one is fully cognizant of this transcendental position he
at once surrenders unto the Lotus Feet of the Supreme Being,
Si Krsna. But such mahatmds, Great Souls, are very rarely seen,
because such transcendental realization ix achieved only after
many, many births. Once attained, however, there is no more
illusion or distress, no more of the misery of material existence,
and there is no birth and death as we experience in the present
status of our life. That is the information we gel from this mantra

of Sri Isopanisad.
