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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 I 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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