Text 34] The Residents of Varanasi Become Vaisnavas 313

TRANSLATION

“The word Brahman means ‘the greatest.’ This means that the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead is full in all six opulences. However, if we take the one-
sided impersonalist view, His fullness is diminished.

PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is originally the Supreme Person. The Lord
says in Bhagavad-gita (9.4):

mayd tatam idam sarvarn
jagad avyakta-murtina

mat-sthani sarva-bhatani
na caham tesv avasthitah

“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are
in Me, but | am not in them.”

The potency of Krsna that is spread everywhere is impersonal. The sunlight is
the impersonal expansion of the sun globe and the sun-god. If we simply take one
side of the Supreme Personality of Godhead—His impersonal effulgence—that
one side does not fully explain the Absolute Truth. Impersonal appreciation of the
Absolute Truth is one-sided and incomplete. One should also accept the other
side, the personal side —Bhagavan. Brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate.
One should not be satisfied simply by understanding the Brahman feature of the
Personality of Godhead. One must also know the Lord's personal feature. That is
complete understanding of the Absolute Truth.

TEXT 34

apfs-rai ca—acea forale-fara |
ial afe aha, afes Acq GASH I 8 |

$ruti-purana kahe—krsnera cic-chakti-vilasa
taha nahi mani, pandita kare upahasa

SYNONYMS

sruti-purana kahe—the Vedic literatures and the Puranas confirm; krsnera—of
Lord Krsna; cit-sakti-vilaésa—activities of spiritual potencies; tahd nahi mani—not
accepting that; pandita kare upahdasa—so-called scholars play jokes without per-
fect understanding.
