Text 21] Divinity and Divine Service 113
science of the Personality of Godhead unless one is freed from the contami-
nation of the material modes, even up to the stage of a brahmana. When
a qualified brdhmana factually becomes a Vaisnava, in the enlivened state
of liberation he can know what is actually the Supreme Lord.
TEXT 21
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frat ecaaftaicaa aaa: |
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efraed aTeT BAHT TE MATEAAAT REI
bhidyate hrdaya-granthis
chidyante sarva-samsayah
ksiyante casya karmani
drsta evatmanisvare

bhidyate—pierced; hrdaya—heart; granthih—knots: chidyante—cut to
pieces; sarve—all: sarmsayadh—misgivings: ksiyante—terminated: ca—and;
asya—his; karmani—chain of fruitive actions: drsta—having seen: eva—
certainly: dtmani—unto the self: isvare— dominating.

TRANSLATION

Thus the knots of the heart and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The
chain of fruitive actions [karma] is terminated when one sees the self as
master.

PURPORT

Attainment of scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead means
seeing one’s own self simultaneously. As far as the identity of the living
being as spirit self is concerned, there are a number of speculations and
misgivings. The materialist does not believe in the existence of the spirit
self, and empiric philosophers believe in the impersonal feature of the
whole spirit without individuality of the living beings. But the transcenden-
talists affirm that the soul and the Supersoul are two different identities
qualitatively one but quantitatively different. There are many other
theories, but all these different speculations are at once cleared off as soon
as Sti Krsna is realized in truth by the process of bhakti-yoga. Sri Krsna is
like the sun, and the materialistic speculations about the Absolute Truth
are like the darkest midnight. As soon as the Krsna sun is arisen within
one’s heart, the darkness of materialistic speculations about the Absolute
Truth and the living beings is at once cleared off. In the presence of the
