98 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

society where a person, after failing to achieve the transcendental platform,
engaged himself in devotional service with his body, mind and words and
thus attained the highest perfectional state of entering into Your abode.
The processes of understanding You by speculation or mystic meditation
are -all useless without devotional service. One should therefore engzge
himself in Your devotional service even in his worldly activities, and one
should always keep himself near You by the process of hearing and
chanting Your transcendental glories. Simply by being attached to hearing
and chanting Your glories, one can attain the highest perfectional stage
and enter into Your kingdom. If a person, therefore, always keeps in
touch with You by hearing and chanting Your glories and offers the results
of his work for Your satisfaction only, he very easily and happily attains
entrance into Your supreme abode. You are realizable by persons who
have cleansed their hearts of all contamination. This cleansing of the heart
is made possible by chanting and hearing the glories of Your Lordship.”

The Lord is all-pervading. As it is stated by Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-
gita, “Everything is sustained by Me, but at the same time I am not in
everything.” Since the Lord is all-pervading, there is nothing existing with-
out His knowledge. The all-pervasive nature of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead can never be within the limited knowledge of a living entity;
therefore, a person who has attained steadiness of the mind by fixing the
mind on the lotus feet of the Lord is able to understand the Supreme
Lord to some extent. It is the business of the mind to wander over
varied subject matter for sense gratification. Therefore only a person who
engages the senses always in the service of the Lord can control the mind
and be fixed at the lotus feet of the Lord. This concentration of the mind
upon the lotus feet of the Lord is called samadhi. Until one reaches the
stage of samadhi, or trance, he cannot understand the nature of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. There may be some philosophers
or scientists who can study the cosmic nature from atom to atom;
they may be so advanced that they can count the atomic composi-
tion of the cosmic atmosphere or all the planets and stars in the sky, or
even the shining molecular parts of the sun or other stars and luminaries in
the sky. But it is not possible to count the qualities of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.

As described in the beginning of Veddanta-siitra, the Supreme Person is
the origin of all qualities. He is generally called nirguna. Nirguna means
without qualities. Guna means quality, and nir means without. But
impersonalists interpret this word nirgura as “having no quality.” Because
they are unable to estimate the qualities of the Lord in transcendental
