Steering Toward the Supreme 79

a devotee of the Lord, all good qualifications will
automatically develop. By nature, the living entity
is perfect, but due to the contamination of lust, he
becomes vicious. That which is part and parcel of
gold is also gold, and whatever is part and parcel of
the Complete Perfect is also perfect.

om purnam adah purnam idam
purnat purnam udacyate

purnasya purnam adaya
purnam evavasisyate

“The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete.
Because He is completely perfect, all emanations
from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are per-
fectly equipped as a complete whole. Whatever is
produced of the complete whole is also complete in
itself. Because He is the complete whole, even though
so many complete units emanate from Him, He re-
mains the complete balance.” (Sri [gopanisad, Invo-
cation)

Due to the contamination of matter, the perfect
living entity falls down, but this process of Krsna
consciousness will again make him perfect. Through
it, he can become truly happy, and after leaving the
material body, enter into the kingdom where there
is eternal life, bliss and full knowledge.
