240 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

injunctions are there just to give the conditioned souls the chance for
sense gratification under regulative principles, and thereby also give them
the chance for promotion to the higher conditions of life; ultimately, if
the consciousness is purified, one comes to his original position and goes
back home, back to Godhead.

The living force is intelligent. One therefore has to utilize his intelli-
gence over the mind and the senses. When the mind and senses are purified
by the proper use of intelligence, then the conditioned soul is liberated;
otherwise, if the intelligence is not properly utilized in controlling the
senses and mind, the conditioned soul continues to transmigrate from one
kind of body to another simply for sense gratification. Another point
clearly stated in the answer of Sukadeva Gosvami is that the Lord created
the mind, senses and intelligence of the individual living force. It is not
stated that the living entities themselves were ever created. Just as the
shining particles of the sun’s rays are always existing along with the sun,
the living entities exist eternally as parts and parcels of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. The conditioned souls, although eternally existing
as part of the Supreme Lord, are sometimes put within the cloud of the
material concept of life, in the darkness of ignorance. The whole Vedic
process is to alleviate that darkened condition. Ultimately, when the senses
and mind of the conditioned being become fully purified, he then comes
to the original position, called Krsna consciousness, and that is liberation.

In the Vedanta-siitra, the first sittra, or code, questions about the
Absolute Truth. Athato brahma-jijiasd: What is the nature of the Absolute
Truth? The next sutra answers that the nature of the Absolute Truth is
that He is the origin of everything. Whatever we experience, even in this
material condition of life, is but an emanation from Him. The Absolute
Truth created the mind and senses and intelligence. This means that the
Absolute Truth is not without mind, intelligence and senses. In other
words, He is not impersonal. The very word “created” means that He has
transcendental intelligence. For example, when the father begets a child,
the child has senses because the father also has senses. The child is born
with hands and legs because the father also has hands and legs. Sometimes
it is said, therefore, that man is made after the image of God. The Absolute
Truth is therefore the Supreme Personality, with transcendental mind,
senses and intelligence. When one’s mind, intelligence and senses are puri-
fied of material contamination, one can understand the original feature of
the Absolute Truth as a person.

The Vedic process is to gradually promote the conditioned soul from
the mode of ignorance to the mode of passion and from the mode of
