vasmat ksaram atito ‘ham
aksarad api cottamah

ato ‘smi loke vede ca
prathitah purusottamah

“Because | am transcendental, beyond both the
fallible and the infallible, and because | am the
greatest, | am celebrated both in the world and in
the Vedas as that Supreme Person.”* (Bg. 15.18)

The import of the Vedas is still more explicitly
explained in the Srimad Bhagavatam. The conclu-
sion of the Vedic literatures is that Lord Sri Krsna is
the primeval Lord and the cause of all causes. He
has His eternal two-armed form as Syamasun-
dara, with features exactly like those of a most
beautiful young man, and that is the sum and
substance of the Vedas concerning God. God is
one, but the living entities, including both the liber-
ated and the conditioned, are many and have
many different grades of positions. The living en-
tities are never equal to God, but as parts and
parcels of the Lord they are eternally His servitors.
As long as the living entities are situated normally
as His servitors they are happy; otherwise they
are always unhappy. That is the Vedic conclusion.#=

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