Text 31] The Lord in the Heart 113
etam gatim bhagavatim gato yah
sa vai punar neha visajjate ‘niga

tena—by that purified; atmana—by the self; dtmanam—the Supersoul;
upaiti—attains; santam—rest ;anandam—satisfaction; dnandamayah—natural-
ly so being; avasane—being freed from all material contamination; etam—
such; gatim—destination; bhagavatim—devotional; gatah—attained by; yah
—the person; sah—he; vai—certainly ; punah—again; na—never; tha—in this
material world; visajjate—becomes attracted; anga—O Maharaja Pariksit.

TRANSLATION
Only the purified soul can attain the perfection of associating with the
Personality of Godhead in complete bliss and satisfaction in his constitu-
tional state, and whoever is able to renovate such devotional perfection is
never again attracted by this material world, and he never returns.
PURPORT

We should specially note in this verse the description of bhagavatim
gati. To become merged in the rays of the Param Brahman, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, as it is desired by the brahmavadi impersonalist,
is not bhagavati perfection. The Bhagavatas never accept merging in the
impersonal rays of the Lord, but always aspire after personal association
with the Supreme Lord in one of the Vaikuntha spiritual planets in the
spiritual sky. The whole of the spiritual sky, of which the total number of
the material skies is an insignificant part only, is full of unlimited numbers
of Vaikuntha planets, and the destination of the devotee (the Bhagavata)
is to enter into one of the Vaikuntha planets in each of which the
Personality of Godhead, in His unlimited personal expansions, enjoys
Himself in the association of unlimited numbers of pure devotee associates.
The conditioned souls in the material world, after gaining emancipation by
devotional service, get promoted in these planets. But the number of ever-
liberated souls is far, far greater than the conditioned souls in the material
world, and the ever-liberated souls in the Vaikuntha planets never care to
visit this miserable material world.

The impersonalists who aspire to merge in the impersonal brahmajyoti
effulgence of the Supreme Lord, but have no conception of loving devo-
tional service to Him in His personal form in the spiritual manifestation,
