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Upanisad. Similarly, in the Rg-veda it is stated, tad visnoh paramam padam sada
pasyanti surayah: ‘‘Visnu is the Supreme, and those who are actually learned think
only of His lotus feet.” In the Prasna Upanisad it is said, sa iksafcakre: ‘“‘He glanced
over the material creation.” (6.3) In the Aitareya Upanisad it is said, sa aiksata—
“‘Heglanced over the material creation’’—and sa imal lokan asrjata—‘‘He created this
entire material world.” (1.1.1-2)

Thus many verses can be quoted from the Upanisads and Vedas which prove that
the Supreme Godhead is not impersonal. In the Katha Upanisad (2.2.13) it is also
said, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman: ‘He is
the supreme eternally conscious person who maintains all other living entities.”
From all these Vedic references one can understand that the Absolute Truth is a
person, although no one can equal or excel Him. Although there are many foolish
Mayavadi philosophers who think that they are even greater than Krsna, Krsna is
asamaurdhva; no one is equal to or above Him.

As stated in the Svetasvatara Upanisad (3.19), apani-pado javano grahita. This
verse describes the Absolute Truth as having no legs or hands. Although this is an
impersonal description, however, it does not mean that the Absolute Personality of
Godhead has no form. He has a spiritual form which is distinct from the forms of
matter. In this verse Caitanya Mahaprabhu clarifies this distinction.

TEXT 113

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Blea SCS — HH He-nCeA fasta i sso tl

cid-ananda—tenho, tahra sthana, parivara
tanre Rahe—prakrta-sattvera vikara

SYNONYMS

cit-ananda—spiritual bliss; teAho—He is personally; tafra—His; sthana—abode;
parivara—entourage; tafMre—unto Him; kahe—someone says; prakrta—material;
sattvera—goodness; vikara—transformation.

TRANSLATION

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full of spiritual potencies. Therefore His
body, name, fame and entourage are all spiritual. The Mayavadi philosopher, due to
ignorance, says that these are all merely transformations of the material mode of
goodness.

PURPORT

In the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita the Supreme Personality of Godhead has
classified His energies in two distinct divisions—namely, prakrta and aprakrta, or
para-prakrti and apara-prakrti. \n the Visnu Purana the same distinction is made.
The Mayavadi philosophers cannot understand these two prakrtis or natures—mate-
