84 THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION
Thy one hand holds a staff
For driving cows,
And Thy other hand is raised—
The thumb touching the tip
Of Thy forefinger,
Indicating divine knowledge.
Salutations to Thee, O Supreme Lord,
For Thou art the milker
Of the ambrosia of the Gita.
. PURPORT
Sripada Sankaracarya explicitly says, ‘‘You fools, just worship Govinda
and that Bhagavad-gita spoken by Narayana Himself,”’ yet foolish people
- still conduct their research work to find out Narayana; consequently they
are wretched, and they waste their time for nothing. Narayana is never
wretched nor daridra; rather, He is worshiped by the goddess of fortune,
Laksmi, as well as by all living entities. Sankara declared himself to be
‘*Brahman,”’ but he admits Narayana, or Krsna, to be the Supreme Per-
sonality who is beyond the material creation. He offers his respects to
Krsna as the Supreme Brahman, or Parabrahman, because He (Krsna) is
worshipable by everyone. Only the fools and enemies of Krsna, who can-
; not understand what the Bhagavad-gitd is (though they make commen-
taries on it), say, “It is not the personal Krsna to whom we have to surrender
ourselves utterly, but to the unborn, beginningless Eternal who speaks through
Krsna.” Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Whereas Sankara, the
greatest of the impersonalists, offers his due respects to Krsna and His
book the Bhagavad-gitda, the foolish say that ‘‘we need not surrender to
the personal Krsna.”’ Such unenlightened people do not know that Krsna
is absolute and that there is no difference between His inside and outside.
The difference of inside and outside is experienced in the dual, material
world. In the absolute world there is no such difference because in the ab-
solute everything is spiritual (sac-cid-dnanda), and Narayana, or Krsna,
belongs to the absolute world. In the absolute world there is only the fac-
tual personality, and there is no distinction between body and soul.
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The Upanisads
Are as a herd of cows,
