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ception is completely removed. Even the impersonalist’s object of destina-
tion is Krsna as the impersonal jyoti, and the yogt’s destination of Param-
atm is also Krsna. Krsnais both brahmajvoti and localized Paramatma,butin
brahmajyoti or Paramatma there is no Krsna or sweet relations with Krsna.
In His personal feature Krsna is both Partha-sarathi and Syamasundara of
Vrndavana, but in His impersonal feature He is neither in the brahmajyoti
nor in the Paramatma. Great mahatmas like Bhismadeva realize all these
different features of Lord Sri Krsna, and therefore they worship Lord
Krsna, knowing Him as the origin of all features.
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am at arta adtareteatany: |
MAAR STA STATI 3
siita uvdca
krsna evar bhagavati
mano-vag-drsti-vrttibhih
: atmany atmanam davesya
so’ntah-Svdsa uparamat
stitah uvaca—Siitta Gosvami said; krsnah—Lord Krsna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead; evam—only; bhagavati—unto Him; manah—mind;
vak—speech; drsti—sight; vrttibhih—activities; dtmani—unto the Supersoul;
atmanam-—the living being; avesya—having merged in; sah—he; antah-svasah
—inhaling; uparamat—became silent.
TRANSLATION
Suta Gosvami said: Thus Bhismadeva merged himself in the Supersoul
Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with his mind,
speech, sight and actions, and thus he became silent, and his breathing
stopped.
PURPORT
The stage attained by Bhismadeva while quitting His material body is
called nirvikalpa-samadhi because he merged his self inte thinking of the
Lord and his mind into remembering His different activities. He chanted
