Text 21] The Process of Creation 211
learned mental speculators think of Him according to their whims. May
the Lord be pleased with me.

PURPORT

The mystic yogis, after a strenuous effort to control the senses, may be
situated in a trance of yoga just to have a vision of the Supersoul within
everyone, but the pure devotee, simply by remembering the Lord’s lotus
feet at every second, at once becomes posted in real trance because by such
realization his mind and intelligence become completely cleansed of the
diseases of material enjoyment. The pure devotee thinks himself fallen into
the ocean of birth and death and incessantly prays to the Lord to lift him
up. He only aspires to become a speck of transcendental dust at the lotus
feet of the Lord. The pure devotee, by the grace of the Lord, absolutely
loses all attraction for material enjoyment, and to keep free from contami-
nation he always thinks of the lotus feet of the Lord. King KulaSekhara, a
great devotee of the Lord, prayed:

krsna tvadiya-pada-pankaja-panjarantam
adyaiva vigatu me mdanasa-raja-hamsah
prana-prayana-samaye kapha-vata-pittaih
kanthavarodhanavidhau smaranam kutas te.
“My Lord Krsna, | pray that the swan of my mind may immediately sink
down to the stems of the lotus feet of Your Lordship and be locked up in
the network; otherwise at the time of my final breath, when my throat is
choked up with cough, how will it be possible to think of You?”

There is an intimate relationship between the swan and the lotus stem.
So the comparison is very appropriate: without becoming a swan or
paramahamsa, one cannot enter into the network of the lotus feet of the
Lord. The mental speculators, as it is stated in the Brahma-samhita, even
by dint of learned scholarship, cannot even dream of the Absolute Truth
by speculating over it for eternity. The Lord reserves the right of not being
exposed to such mental speculators. And because they cannot enter into
the network stem of the lotus feet of the Lord, all mental speculators differ
in conclusions, and at the end they make a useless compromise by saying
‘“‘as many conclusions, as many ways,”’ according to one’s own inclination
(yatha-rucam). But the Lord is not like a shopkeeper trying to please all
sorts of customers in the mental speculator exchange. The Lord is what
He is, the Absolute Personality of Godhead, and He demands absolute
