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lo attract the dry speculators in the transcendental line, as well as _
the acrobats of the so-called hatha-yoga system, trying to find
the Absolute Truth.

Of the childhood play of the Lord with His playmates, the
cowherd boys, Sukadeva Gosvami in the Srimad-Bhagavatam
said:

The Personality of Godhead, Who is perceived as the

impersonal Brahman of bliss, Who is worshiped as the

Supreme Lord by the devotees, and Who is considered

an ordinary human being by the mundane, played with

the cowherd boys who had achieved that position after

a huge accumulation of pious deeds.

Thus the Lord is ever engaged in transcendental loving
activities along with His spiritual associates in the various
relationships of santa, calmness, dasya, servitorship, sakhya,
lriendship, vatsalya, paternal affection, and madhurya, conjugal
love.

lt is said that the Lord never goes out of the Vrnddavana-
dhama, and so it may be asked how He manages the affairs
of His different creations. This is answered in the Gita: He
pervades all the matcrial creation by His plenary part, known as
the Purusa incarnation. The Lord has nothing to do with
material creation, maintenance and destruction, but He causes it
lo be done by His plenary expansion, this Paramatman or
Supersoul feature. Every living entity is known as dtman, soul.
The principal Atman, Who controls them all, is Paramatman—
Supersoul.

The whole system of God realization is a great science.
The matcrialists can only analyze and meditate on the twenty-
four factors of the material creation. They have very little
information of the Purusa, the Lord. The impersonal transcen-
(lentalists are simply bewildered by the glaring effulgence of the
Brahma-jyoti. lf one wants to see the Absolute Truth in full, one
