104 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

PURPORT

In this verse from $rimad-Bhagavatam (11.6.47), vata-vasanah refers to mendi-
cants who do not care about anything material, including clothing, but who depend
wholly on nature. Such sages do not cover their bodies even in severe winter or
scorching sunshine. They take great pains not to avoid any kind of bodily suffering,
and they live by begging from door to door. They never discharge their semina,
either knowingly or unknowingly. By such celibacy they are able to raise the
semina to the brain. Thus they become most intelligent and develop very sharp
memories. Their minds are never disturbed or diverted from contemplation on the
Absolute Truth, nor are they ever contaminated by desire for material enjoyment.
By practicing austerities under strict discipline, such mendicants attain a neutral
state transcendental to the modes of nature and merge into the impersona! Brahman.

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atmantaryami yanre yoga-Sastre kaya
seha govindera am§a vibhiti ye haya

SYNONYMS

atma antaryami— indwelling Supersoul; yaAre—who; yoga-sastre—in the scriptures
of yoga; kaya—is spoken; seha—that; govindera—of Govinda; amsa—plenary portion;
vibhati—expansion; ye— which; haya—is.

TRANSLATION

He who is described in the yoga-Sastras as the indwelling Supersoul [atma
antaryadmi] is also a plenary portion of Govinda’s personal expansion.

PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is by nature joyful. His enjoyments or
pastimes are completely transcendental. He is on the fourth dimension of existence,
for although the material world is measured by the limitations of length, breadth
and height, the Supreme Lord is completely unlimited in His body, form and exis-
tence. He is not personally attached to any of the affairs within the material
cosmos. The material world is created by the expansion of His purusa-avatara, who
directs the aggregate material energy and all the conditioned souls. By understand-
ing the three expansions of the purusa, a living entity can transcend the position
of knowing only the twenty-four elements of the material world.

One of the expansions of Maha-Visnu is Ksirodakasayi Visnu, the Supersoul
within every living entity. As the Supersoul of the total living entities, or the
second purusa, He is known as Garbhodakasgayi Visnu. As the creator or original
