Text 273] The Lord Instructs Sanatana Gosvami 151

whom everything emanates.” He is the Supreme Truth: satyam param dhimahi
(Bhag. 1.1.1). The absolute ultimate truth is Krsna. Om namo bhagavate
vasudevaya/ janmady asya yato ‘nvaydad itaratas carthesv abhijhah sva-rat: ‘The
Absolute Truth is a person who is directly and indirectly cognizant of the entire
cosmic manifestation.” (Bhag. 1.1.1)

The Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, educated Lord
Brahma from the heart (Bhdg. 1.1.1): tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye. Therefore
the Absolute Truth cannot be dull matter; the Absolute Truth must be the
Supreme Person Himself. Sei purusa mayda-pdne kare avadhana. Simply by His
glance, material nature is impregnated with all living entities. According to their
karma and fruitive activity, they emerge in different bodies. That is the explana-
tion given by Bhagavad-gita (2.13):

dehino ‘smin yathd dehe
kaumaram yauvanam jard

tatha dehantara-prdaptir
dhiras tatra na myhyati

“As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to
old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul
is not bewildered by such a change.”

TEXT 273

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svanga-visesabhasa-rupe prakrti-sparsana
jiva-ripa ‘bija’ tate kaila samarpana

SYNONYMS

sva-anga-visesa-abhasa-rape—in the form of a specific shadow from His per-
sonal body; prakrti-sparsana—the Lord glances over the material nature; jiva-
rdpa—having the form of the sparklike living entities, who are parts and parcels;
bija—semina; tate—in that material nature; kaild samarpana—impregnated.

TRANSLATION

“To impregnate with the seeds of living entities, the Lord Himself does not
directly touch the material energy, but by His specific functional expansion,
He touches the material energy, and thus the living entities, who are His parts
and parcels, are impregnated into material nature.
