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it is accepted that as long as one thinks that he is equal with the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, he is not completely purified or knowledgeable.
In spite of going up to the first purusa-avatara, Mahd-Visnu, after the dis-
solution of this material creation, such personalities again fall down or
come back to the material creation.

It is a great falldown on the part of the impersonalists to think that the
Supreme Lord appears within a material body and that one should there-
fore not meditate upon the form of the Supreme but should meditate in-
stead on the formless. For this particular mistake, even the great mystic
yogis or great stalwart transcendentalists also come back again when there
is creation. All living entities other than the impersonalists and monists
can directly take to devotional service in full Krsna consciousness and
become liberated by developing transcendental loving service for the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such devotional service develops in the
degrees of thinking of the Supreme Lord as master, as friend, as son, and,
at last, as lover. These distinctions in transcendental variegatedness must
always be present.

TEXT 16
2 Racemata: ag reniera: |
aa rcrafa ratte Frrerreaht a HeaT!N I
ye tv thasakta-manasah
karmasu sraddhayanvitah
kurvanty apratisiddhani
nityany api ca krtsnasah

ye—those who; tu—but; iha—in this world; asakta—addicted; manasah—
whose minds; karmasu—to fruitive activities; sraddhaydé—with faith;
anvitah—endowed; kurvanti—perform; apratisiddhani—with attachment to
the result; nityani—prescribed duties; api—certainly; ca—and; krtsnaSah—
repeatedly.

TRANSLATION

Persons who are too addicted to this material world execute their
prescribed duties very nicely and with great faith. They daily perform all
such prescribed duties with attachment to the fruitive result.

PURPORT

In this and the following six verses, the Srimad-Bhagavatam criticizes

persons who are too materially attached. It is enjoined in the Vedic scrip-
