Text 33] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 509
sonalist school is refuted by pointing out that the predominator “I” is the
Absolute Truth, and He is a person. The predominated “I,” Brahma, is also
a person, but he is not the Absolute. For realization of one’s self in spiritual
psychology it may be convenient to assume oneself as the same principle
as the Absolute Truth, but there is always the difference of the predomi-
nated and the predominator, as is clearly pointed out here in this verse,
which is grossly misused by the impersonalists. Brahma is factually seeing
eye to eye his predominator Lord who, in His transcendental eternal form,
exists even after the annihilation of the material creation. The form of the
Lord, as seen by Brahma, existed before the creation of Brahma, and the
material manifestation with all ingredients and agents of material creation
are also energetic expansions of the Lord, and after closing the exhibited
energy of the Lord, what remains is the same Personality of Godhead.
Therefore the form of the Lord exists in all circumstances of the creation,
maintenance and annihilation. The Vedic hymns confirm this fact in the
statement, “‘vasudevo va idam agra dsinna brahma na ca sankarah eko vai
ndrayana dsinna brahmé na isano, etc.” Before the creation there was none
except Vasudeva. There was neither Brahma nor Sankara. Only Narayana
was there and no one else, neither Brahma nor Igana. Sripada Sankaracarya
also confirms in his comments on the Bhagavad-gita that Narayana, or the
Personality of Godhead, is transcendental to all creation, but the whole
creation is the product of avyakta. Therefore the difference between the
created and the creator is always there, although both the creator and
created are of the same quality.

The other feature of the statement is that the supreme truth is Bhagavan,
or the Personality of Godhead. The Personality of Godhead and His
kingdom have already been explained. The kingdom of Godhead is not
void as conceived by the impersonalists. The Vaikuntha planets are full of
transcendental variegatedness, including the four-handed residents of those
planets, and with great opulence of wealth and presperity, and there are
even airplanes and other amenities required for high-grade personalities.
Therefore the Personality of Godhead exists before the creation, and He
exists with all transcendental variegatedness in the Vaikunthalokas. The
Vaikunthalokas, also accepted in the Bhagavad-gita as being of the sandatana
nature, are not annihilated even after the annihilation of the manifested
cosmos. Those transcendental planets are of a different nature altogether,
and that nature is not subjected to the rules and regulations of material
creation, maintenance or annihilation. The existence of the Personality of
Godhead implies the existence of the Vaikunthalokas, as the existence of a
king implies the existence of a kingdom.

In various places of Srimad-Bhagavatam and in other revealed scriptures
