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also nondifferent from Him, but simultaneously He, as the original Per-
sonality of Godhead Si Krsna, is aloof from the created manifestation.
The impersonalist gives stress to the impersonal form or feature of the
Lord and does not believe in the original personality of the Lord, but the
Vaisnavas accept the original form of the Lord, of whom the impersonal
form is merely one of the features. The impersonal and personal concep-
tions of the Lord are existing simultaneously, and this fact is clearly
described both in the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam, and also
in other Vedic scriptures. Inconceivable by human intelligence, the idea
must simply be accepted on the authority of the scriptures, and it can only
be practically realized by the progress of devotional service unto the Lord,
and never by mental speculation or inductive logic. The impersonalists
depend more or less on inductive logic, and therefore mney always remain
in darkness about the original Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna. Their
conception of Krsna is not clear, although everything is clearly mentioned
in all the Vedic scriptures. A poor fund of knowledge cannot comprehend
the existence of an original personal form of the Lord when He is expanded
in everything. This imperfectness is due, more or less, to the material
conception that a substance which is distributed widely in parts can no
longer exist in the original form.

The original personality of Godhead (adyah) Govinda expands Himself
as the Maha-Visnu incarnation and rests in the Causal Ocean which He
Himself creates. The Brahma-samhita confirms this as follows:

yah kadrandmava-jale bhajati sma yoga-
nidram ananta-jagad-anda-sa-romakiipah
adhara-saktim avalambya param sva-mirtim
govindam ddi-purusam tam aham bhajami
Lord Brahmaji says in his Brahma-samhita, “1 worship the primeval Lord
Govinda, who lies down in the Causal Ocean in His plenary portion as
Maha-Visnu, with all the universes generating from the pores of hair on
His transcendental body, and who accepts the mystic slumber of eternity.”

So this Maha-Visnu is the first incarnation in the creation, and from
Him all the universes generate and all material manifestations are produced,
one after another. The Causal Ocean is created by the Lord as the mahat-
tattva, as a cloud in the spiritual sky, and is a part of His different
manifestations only. The spiritual sky is an expansion of His personal rays,
and He is the mahat-tattva cloud also. He lies down and generates the
universes by His breathing, and again, by entering into each universe as
