Mantra Sixteen 83

PURPORT

The Sun and the Sun’s rays are one and the same qualita-
tively. Similarly, the Lord and the living entities are one and the
same in quality. The Sun is one, but the molecules of the
Sun’s rays are innumerable. The Sun’s rays constitute part of the
Sun; the Sun and the rays conjointly are the complete Sun.
Within the Sun planet there is the Sun god, and similarly within
the supreme spiritual planet, Goloka Vrndavan, from which the
effulgent Brahma-jyoti is emanating, there is the eternal Lord,
as is stated in the Brahma-samhita:

The transcendental Abode of Lord Krsna is the land of
touchstones, of which the houses are built, shaded by
desire trees. The Lord is engaged there in herding the
surabhi cows, and is always served and surrounded by
thousands of Goddesses of Fortune, who wait upon Him
with all respect.

The description of this transcendental Abode of Lord Krsna
is in the Brahma-samhita, and the Brahma-jyoli is described
there as the supreme rays from that plancl, just as the Sun’s
rays come from the Sun globe. Unless one surpasses the
Brahma-jyoti glare, one cannot have any information of the land
of the Lord. The impersonalist philosopher, being blinded by
the dazzling Brahma-jyoti, cannot realize the factual Abode of
the Lord, nor Ilis transcendental form. Affected by such a poor
fund of knowledge, the thinkers cannot understand the all-
blissful transcendental form of Lord Krsna. Sri [sopanisad,
therefore, offers this prayer to the Lord to remove the cffulgent
rays of the Brahma-jyoti, so that the pure devotee can see His
all-blissful transcendental form.

By realization of the impersonal Brahma-jyoti, onc experiences
the auspicious aspect of the Supreme; by experience of the
