Text 22] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 49]

one who has realized and seen the Supreme Lord has attained all perfection
because every thing is included there in that highest perfectional stage. The
impersonalists and the pseudo mystics, however, cannot reach this state.

TEXT 22
WATASAAISA AA SRSA |
TA a AR TA TT 122A

manisitanubhavo’yam
mama lokavalokanam

yad upasrutya rahasi
cakartha paramam tapah

manisita—ingenuily; anubhavah—perception; ayam—this; mama—My;
loka—abode; avalokanam—seeing by actual experience; yat—because;
upasrutya—hearing; rahasi—in great penance; cakartha—having performed;
paramam—highest ; tapah—penance.

TRANSLATION

The highest perfectional ingenuity is the personal perception of My
abodes, and this has been possible because of your submissive attitude in
the performance of severe penance on My order.

PURPORT

The highest perfectional stage of life is to know the Lord by actual
perception, by the grace of the Lord. This can be attained by everyone
who is willing to discharge the act of devotional service to the Lord as
cnjoined in the revealed scriptures that are standard and accepted by the
bona fide dcdryas, spiritual masters. For example, the Bhagavad-gita is the
approved Vedic literature accepted by all the great acaryas, such as
Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Caitanya, Vigsvanatha, Baladeva, Siddhanta
Sarasvali and many others. In that Bhagavad-gita the Personality of God-
head, Sri Krsna, asks that one should always be mindful of Him, one should
always be His devotee, one should always worship Him only, and one
should always bow down before the Lord. And by doing so one is sure to
