Text 40] The Renunciation of Kardama Muni 991

eternal, spiritual form, then he can understand the nature of the Personality
of Godhead. Since the less intelligent cannot understand this point, it is
stressed everywhere again and again. Simply by seeing the form of the
Lord as He presents Himself by His own internal potency as Krsna or Rama
or Kapila, one can directly see the brahmajyoti because the brahmajyoti is
no more than the effulgence of His bodily luster. Since the sunshine is the
luster of the sun planet, by seeing the sun one automatically sees the sun-
shine; similarly, by seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead one
simultaneously sees and experiences the Paramatma feature as well as the
impersonal Brahman feature of the Supreme.

The Bhagavatam has already enunciated that the Absolute Truth is
present in three features—in the beginning as the impersonal Brahman,
in the next stage as the Paramatma in everyone’s heart, and, at last,
as the ultimate realization of the Absolute Truth, Bhagavan, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. One who sees the Supreme Person can auto-
matically realize the other features, namely the Paramatma and Brahman
features of the Lord. The words used here are vigoko *bhayam rcechasi.
Simply by seeing the Personality of Godhead one realizes everything, and
the result is that he becomes situated on the platform where there is no
lamentation and no fear. This can be attained simply by devotional service
to the Personality of Godhead.

TEXT 40

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matra adhyatmikim vidyam
Samanim sarva-karmanam

vitarisye yaya casau
bhayam catitarisyati

matre—to My mother; adhyatmikim—which opens the door of spiritual
life; vidyam—knowledge; samanim—ending; sarva-karmapam-—all fruitive
activities; vitarisye—I shall give; yaya—by which; ca—also; asau—she;
bhayam—fear; ca~—also; atitarisyati—will overcome.

TRANSLATION

Ishall also describe this sublime knowledge, which is the door to spiritual
life, to My mother, so that she also can attain perfection and self-realization,
