Text 34] Creation of the Universal Form 251
TRANSLATION

All these different social divisions are born, with their occupational
duties and living conditions, from the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Thus for unconditional life and self-realization one has to worship the
Supreme Lord under the direction of the spiritual master.

PURPORT

Since they are born from different parts of the body of the Supreme
Lord in His gigantic form, all living entities in all parts of the entire
universe are supposed to be eternal servitors of the supreme body. Every
part of our own body, such as the mouth, hands, thighs and legs, is meant
to render service to the whole. That is their constitutional position. In
subhuman life the living entities are not conscious of this constitutional
position, but in the human form of life they are supposed to know this
through the system of the varnas, the social orders. As above mentioned,
the brahmana is the spiritual master of all the orders of society, and thus
brahminical culture, culminating in the transcendental service of the Lord,
is the basic principle for purifying the soul.

In conditioned life the soul is under the impression that he can become
the Lord of the universe, and the last point of this misconception is to
think oneself the Supreme. The foolish conditioned soul does not take into
account that the Supreme cannot be conditioned by maya, or illusion. If
the Supreme were to become conditioned by illusion, where would be His
supremacy? In that case, maya or illusion would be the Supreme. There-
fore, because the living entities are conditioned, they cannot be supreme.
The actual position of the conditioned soul is explained in this verse: all
the conditioned souls are impure due to contact with the material energy
in three modes of nature. Therefore it is necessary that they purify
themselves under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master, who is not
only a brahmana by qualification but who must also be a Vaignava. The
only self-purifying process mentioned herein is to worship the Lord under
the recognized method—under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual
master. That is the natural way of purification, and no other method is
recommended as bona fide. The other methods of purification may be
helpful to come to this stage of life, but ultimately one has to come to
this last point before he attains actual perfection. Bhagavad-gita confirms
this truth as follows:
