70 On the Way to Krgna

bahunam janmanam ante
jiianavan mam prapadyate
vasudevah sarvam iti
sa mahatma sudurlabhah

“After many births and deaths, he who is actually in
knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be
the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great
soul is very rare.” (Bg. 7.19)

Philosophical research into the science of God has
to be prosecuted for many births. God realization is
very easy, but at the same time it is very difficult. It
is easy for those who accept Krsna’s word as truth,
but those who try to understand through research
work, by dint of advancement of knowledge, have
to create their faith after finishing so much research
work, and this process takes many births. There are
different types of transcendentalists, called tattvavit,
who know the Absolute Truth. The transcendental-
ists call the Absolute Truth that in which there is no
duality. In the Absolute Truth there is no duality—
everything is on the same level. One who knows this
in truth is called tattvavit.

Krsna proclaims that the Absolute Truth is known
in three aspects—Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan
—impersonal Brahman effulgence, localized Super-
soul, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus
there are three angles from which one may envision
the Absolute Truth. One may view a mountain from
a great distance and thus perceive it from one angle
of vision. As he comes closer, he may see the trees
and foliage of the mountain, and if he begins to
climb the mountain, he will find so much variegated-
