24 Srimad-Bhagavatam

ality of Godhead must be completely full of opulence, strength, fame,
beauty, knowledge and renunciation. Yet the transcendental Personality
of Godhead is astonishingly ascertained as impersonal.

“The impersonal description of the Absolute Truth in the Vedas is given
to nullify the mundane conception of the absolute whole. Personal features
of the Lord are completely different from all kinds of mundane features.
The living entities are all individual persons, and they are all parts and
parcels of the supreme whole. If the parts and parcels are individual
persons, the source of their emanation must not be impersonal. He is the
Supreme Person amongst all the relative persons.

“The Vedas inform us that from Him [Brahman] everything emanates,
and on Him everything rests. And after annihilation, everything merges in
Him only. Therefore, He is the ultimate dative, causative and accommo-
dating cause of all causes. And all these causes cannot be attributed to an
impersonal object.

“The Vedas inform us that He alone became many, and when He so
desires He glances over material nature. Before He glanced over material
nature there was no material cosmic creation. Therefore, His glance is not
material. Material mind or senses were unborn when the Lord glanced over
material nature. Thus evidence in the Vedas proves that beyond a doubt
the Lord has transcendental eyes and a transcendental mind. They are not
material. His impersonality therefore is a negation of His materiality, but
not a denial of His transcendental personality.

“Brahman ultimately refers to the Personality of Godhead. Impersonal
Brahman realization is just the negative conception of the mundane crea-
tions. Paramatma is the localized aspect of Brahman within all kinds of
material bodies. Ultimately the Supreme Brahman realization is the reali-
zation of the Personality of Godhead according to all evidence of the
revealed scriptures. He is the ultimate source of Visnu tattvas.

“The Puranas are also supplementary to the Vedas. The Vedic mantras
are too difficult for an ordinary man. Women, sidras and the so-called
twice-born higher castes are unable to penetrate into the sense of the
Vedas. And thus the Itihasa or the Mahabharata as well as the Puranas are
made easy to explain the truths of the Vedas. In his prayers before the boy
Sri Krsna, Brahmi said that there is no limit to the fortune of the residents
of Vrajabhiimi headed by Sri Nanda Maharaja and Yasodamayi because
the eternal Absolute Truth has become their intimate relative.

“The Vedic mantra maintains that the Absolute Truth has no legs and
no hands and yet goes faster than all and accepts everything that is
