254 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

of Visnu the target of all one’s efforts. Tad visnoh paramam padam, Visnu-
loka or the Visnu planets, are situated above all the material planets. These
Vaikuntha planets are known as sandtana-dhama, and they are eternal.
They are never annihilated, not even by the annihilation of this material
world. The conclusion is that if a human being does not fulfill the mission
of his life by worshiping the Supreme Lord and does not go back to God-
head, then it is to be understood that he has been frustrated in fulfilling
the main purpoes of human life.

The next prayer of the personified Vedas to the Lord concerns His
entering into different species of life. It is stated in Bhagavad-gita, Four-
teenth Chapter, that in every species and form of life the spiritual part
and parcel of the Supreme Lord is present. The Lord Himself claims in the
Gita that He is the seed-giving father of all forms and species, and there-
fore they must all be considered sons of the Lord. The entrance of the
Supreme Lord into everyone’s heart as Paramatma sometimes bewilders
the impersonalists, who think in terms of the equality of the living entities
with the Supreme Lord. They think that because the Supreme Lord enters
into different bodies along with the individual soul, there is no distinction
between the Lord and the individual entities. Their challenge is, ““Why
should individual souls worship the Paramatma or Supersoul?”’ According
to them, both the Supersoul and the individual soul are on the same level;
they are one, without any difference between them. There is a difference,
however, between the Supersoul and in the individual soul, and this is
explained in Bhagavad-gita, Fifteenth Chapter, wherein the Lord says that
although He is situated with the living entity in the same body, He
is superior. He is dictating to or giving intelligence to the individual soul
from within. It is clearly stated in the Gita that the Lord gives intelligence
to the individual soul and that both memory and forgetfulness are due to
the influence of the Supersoul. No one can act independently of the sanc-
tion of the Supersoul. Therefore, the individual soul acts according to his
past karma, reminded by the Lord. The nature of the individual soul is
forgetfulness, but the presence of the Lord within the heart reminds him
of what he wanted to do in his past life. The intelligence of the individual
soul is exhibited like fire in wood. Although fire is always fire, it is
exhibited in a size proportionate to the size of the wood. Similarly,
although the individual soul is qualitatively one with the Supreme Lord,
he exhibits himself according to the limitations of his present body.

The Supreme Lord or the Supersoul is said to be eka-rasa. Eka means
one, and rasa means mellow. The transcendental position of the Supreme
Lord is that of eternity, bliss and full knowledge. His position of eka-rasa
