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mechanical construction, with veins and so forth in the em-
hodiment. But in the transcendental body of the Lord there is
nothing like veins. It is clearly stated here that He is unem-
hodicd. That means that there is no difference between His
hody and soul, nor does He accept a body by the law of Nature
as we do. In the material concept of bodily life, the soul is
different from the gross embodiment and subtle mind. The
Supreme Lord is apart from any such compartmentalized
arrangement, however. There is nothing like a difference of
body and mind in the Supreme Lord. He is the Complete Whole,
and His mind and body and He Himself are all one and the same.

In the Brahma-samhita there is a similar description of the
body of the Supreme Lord. He is described there as the
sac-cid-ananda-vigraha. This means that He is the eternal Form
fully representing transcendental Existence, Knowledge and
Bliss. The Vedic literature states clearly that He has a completely
different kind of transcendental body, and thus He is sometimes
described as formless. This formlessness means that He has no
form like ‘ours, or that He is devoid of a form which we can
perceive. In the Brahma-samhitd it is further said that the Lord
can do anything and everything with any one of the parts of
His body. It is said there that with each and every one of the
parts of His body, such as the hand, He can do the work of the
other senses. This means that the Lord can walk with His hands,
He can accept a thing by His legs, He can see by His hands and
feet, and He can eat by His eyes. In the Sruti mantras it is said
that He has no hands and no legs like us, but that He has a
different type of hand and leg, by which Ile can accept all that
we offer Him, and walk faster than anyone anywhere. These
things are confirmed in this mantra of Sri [sopanisad by the use
of words like omnipotent.

The Lord’s Sri Vigraha, His worshipable form, Whieh is
installed in the temples by authorized dcaryas who have realized
the Lord in terms of Mantra Seven, is also non-different
from the Original Form of the Lord. The Original Form of the
