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the Absolute Personality of Godhead. These words distinguish the Ab-
solute Person, or Parabrahman, from other persons, who are
qualitatively one with Him. The Absolute Personality of Godhead is ad-
dressed as sarvatma, or all-pervading, because no one is aloof from Him,
although not everyone has this realization. The Personality of Godhead,
by His plenary representation, resides in everyone’s heart as Paramatma,
the Supersoul, along with each individual soul. Therefore every in-
dividual soul has an intimate relationship with Him. Forgetfulness of this
eternally existing intimate relationship with Him is the cause of condi-
tional life since time immemorial. But because He is Bhagavan, or the
supreme personality, He can at once reciprocate the responsive call of a
devotee. Moreover, because He is the perfect person, His beauty,
opulence, fame, strength, knowledge, and renunciation are all unlimited
sources of transcendental bliss for the individual soul. The individual
soul becomes attracted by all these different opulences when they are im-

- perfectly represented by other conditioned souls, but the individual soul
is not satisfied by such imperfect representations, and therefore he per-
petually seeks the perfect one. The Personality of Godhead’s beauty has
no comparison, nor do His knowledge and renunciation. But above all,
He is isvara, or the supreme controller. We are at present being con-
trolled by the police action of this great king. This police control is im-
posed upon us because of our disobedience of law. But because the Lord
is Hari, He is able to cause the disappearance of our conditional life by
giving us full freedom in spiritual existence. It is therefore the duty of
every man to make relevant inquiries about Him and thus go back to
Godhead.
