Text 34] Purusa-sikta Confirmed 313
Supreme Lord unto the heart of Brahma, and since he is the most perfect
living being, Brahmaji is always correct to the letter. And this is because
Lord Brahma is a great devotee of the Lord who has earnestly accepted the
lotus feet of the Lord as the supreme truth. In the Brahma-samhita, which
is compiled by Brahmaji, he repeats the aphorism, govindam ddi-purusam
tam aham bhajami: “| am a worshiper of the original Personality of
Godhead, Govinda, the primeval Lord.’ So whatever he says, whatever he
thinks, and whatever he does normally in his mood are to be accepted as
truth because of his direct and very intimate connection with Govinda,
the primeval Lord. Sri Govinda, who pleasingly accepts the loving tran-
scendental service of His devotees, gives all protection to the words and
actions of His devotees. The Lord declares in the Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 9.31),
kaunteya pratijanihi: ““O son of Kunti, please declare it.”” The Lord asks
Arjuna to declare, and why? Because sometimes the declaration of Govinda
Himself may seem to be contradictory to mundane creatures, but the
mundaner will never find any contradiction in the words of the Lord’s
devotees. The devotees are especially protected by the Lord so that they
may remain infallible. Therefore the process of devotional service always
begins in the service of the devotee who appears in disciplic succession.
The devotees are always liberated, but that does not mean that they are
impersonal. The Lord is a person eternally, and the devotee of the Lord is
also a person eternally. Because the devotee has his sense organs even at
the liberated stage, he is therefore a person always. And because the
devotee’s service is accepted by the Lord in full reciprocation, the Lord is
also a person in His complete spiritual embodiment. The devotee’s senses,
being engaged in the service of the Lord, never go astray under the attrac-
tion of false material'enjoyment. The plannings of the devotee never go in
vain, and all these things are due to the faithful attachment of the devotee
for the service of the Lord. This is the standard of perfection and liberation.
Anyone, beginning from Brahmaji down to the human being, is at once put
on the path of liberation simply by his attachment in great earnestness for
the Supreme Lord, Sri Krsna, the primeval Lord. The Lord affirms this in
the Bhagavad-gita:
mam ca yo vyabhicarena bhakti-yogena sevate
sa gundan samatityaitan brahmabhiyaya kalpate.
(Bg. 14.26)

Anyone, therefore, who is earnestly serious in heart and soul about

being in intimate touch with the Personality of Godhead in the relation-
