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attracted by material enjoyments. As such, persons with a poor fund of
knowledge cannot have any conception of the param; they try to stick
to the varieties of material enjoyments, although they may flatter them-
selves to be Brahman-realized souls. Such less intelligent persons cannot
have any conception of the param, as mentioned in this verse, and there-
fore they cannot reach the Supreme. The devotees have full knowledge of
the spiritual world, the Personality of Godhead and His transcendental
association in unlimited spiritual planets called Vaikunthalokas. Herein
akuntha-drstih is mentioned. Akuntha and vaikuntha convey the same
import, and only one who has his aim fixed upon that spiritual world and
personal association with the Godhead can give up this material connection
even while living in the material world. This param and the param dhadma
mentioned in several places of the Bhagavad-gitd are one and the same
thing. One who goes to the param dhama does not return again to this
material world. This is not possible even by reaching the topmost loka of
the material world.

The life air passes through seven openings, namely two eyes, two
nostrils, two ears and one mouth. Generally it passes through the mouth
at the time of an ordinary man’s death. But the yogi, as above mentioned,
who controls the life air in his own way, generally releases the life air by
puncturing the cerebral hole in the head. The yogi therefore blocks up all
the above-mentioned seven openings, so that naturally the life air will
burst forth through the cerebral hole, which is the sure sign of leaving the
material connection by the great devotees.

TEXT 22

ae TaTETT TT TAT
aT az fiery |
wat grata
Mel | TESTA RAT 122

yadi praydsyan nrpa paramesth yan
vaihadyasdndm uta yad vihdram

astadhipatyam guna-sannivaye
sahaiva gacchen manasendriyais ca
