Text 21] The First Step in God Realization 35
Such impersonalists think of themselves as liberated souls, but they have
no knowledge of the transcendental personal feature of the Absolute Truth.
Actually they are impure in heart on account of being devoid of knowledge
of the personal feature of the Absolute. In the Bhagavad-gita, it is said that
after many hundreds of births, the impersonalist philosopher surrenders
unto the Personality of Godhead. To acquire such a qualification of God
realization in the personal feature, the neophyte impersonalist is given a
chance to realize the relation of the Lord in everything by the philosophy
of pantheism.

Pantheism in its higher status does not permit the student to form an
impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth, but the conception of the
Absolute Truth is extended in the field of the so-called material energy.
Everything created by the material energy can be dovetailed with the
Absolute by service attitude, which is the essential part of living energy.
The pure devotee of the Lord knows the art of converting everything into
its spiritual existence by this service attitude, and in that devotional way
only can the theory of pantheism be perfected.

TEXT 21
TEA TITAN TAT AFR: |
ML ATTA TIT Heat ATATAT: 1M
yasyam sandhaéryamanayam
yogino bhakti-laksanah
asu sampadyate yoga
asrayam bhadram iksatah

yasyam—by such systematic remembrance; sandharyamandyadm—and
thus being fixed in the habit of; yoginah—the mystics; bhakti-laksanah—
being practiced to the devotional system; a@’u—very soon; sampadyate—
attains success; yogah—connection by devotional service; asrayam—under
the shelter of; bhadram—the all-good; iksatah—which seeing that.

TRANSLATION
O King, by this system of remembrance and by being fixed in the
habit of seeing the all-good personal conception of the Lord, one can very
soon attain devotional service of the Lord under His direct shelter.
