Text 42] Bhisma’s Passing Away 499
TRANSLATION

Now I can meditate upon that one Lord Sri Krsna now present before
me with full concentration because now I have transcended the miscon-
ceptions of duality in regard to His presence in everyone’s heart, even in
the hearts of the mental speculators. He is in everyone’s heart. The sun
may be perceived differently, but the sun is one.

PURPORT

Lord Sri Krsna is the one Absolute Supreme Personality of Godhead,
but He has expanded Himself into His multiplenary portions by His
inconceivable energy. The conception of duality is due to ignorance of His
inconceivable energy. In the Bhagavad-gitad the Lord says (Bg. 9.11) that
only the foolish take Him to be a mere human being. Such foolish men are
nol aware of His inconceivable energies. By His inconceivable energy He
is present in everyone’s heart, as the sun is present before everyone all over
the world. The Pararatma feature of the Lord is an expansion of His
plenary portions. He expands Himself as Paramatma in every one’s heart by
His inconceivable energy, and He also expands Himself as the glowing
effulgence of brahmajyoti by expansion of His personal glow. It is stated
in the Brahma-samhitd that the brahmajyoti is His personal glow. There-
fore, there is no difference between Him and His personal glow brahmajyoti
or His plenary portions as Paramatma. Less intelligent persons who are
not aware of this fact consider brahmajyoti and Paramatma to be different
from Sri Krsna. This misconception of duality is completely removed from
the mind of Bhismadeva, and he is now satisfied that it is Lord Sri Krsna
only who is all in all in everything. This enlightenment is attained by the
great mahatmas or devotees, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita (Be. 7.19)
that Vasudeva is all in all in everything, and there is no existence of any-
thing without Vasudeva. Vasudeva or Lord Sri Krsna is the original Su-
preme Person, as now confirmed by a mahajana, and therefore both the
neophytes and the pure devotees must try to follow in his footsteps. That
is the way of the devotional line.

The worshipable object of Bhismadeva is Lord Sri Krsna as Partha-
sirathi, and that of the gopis is the same Krsna in Vrndavana as the most
attractive Syamasundara. Sometimes less intelligent scholars make a mis-
take and think that the Krsna of Vrndavana and that of the Battle of
Kuruksetra are different personalities. But for Bhismadeva this miscon-
