Text 26] Entanglement in Fruitive Activities 1393

PURPORT

The word drsyddibhih is significant. According to Jiva Gosvami,
drsya means jiiana, philosophical research. By different processes of
philosophical research under different concepts, such as the process of
jiiana-yoga, the same Bhagavan, or Supreme Personality of Godhead, is
understood as impersonal Brahman. Similarly, by the eightfold yoga
system He appears as the Paramatma. But in pure Krsna consciousness, or
knowledge in purity, when one tries to understand the Absolute Truth,
one realizes Him as the Supreme Person. The Transcendence is realized
simply on the basis of knowledge. The words used here, paramatmesvarah
puman, are all transcendental, and they refer to Supersoul. Supersoul is
also described as purusa, but the word Bhagavan directly refers to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full of six opulences: wealth,
fame, strength, beauty, knowledge and renunciation. He is the Personality
of Godhead in different spiritual skies. The various descriptions of
paramatma, isvara and puman indicate that the expansions of the Supreme
Godhead are unlimited.

Ultimately, to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead one
has to accept bhakti-yoga. By executing jnana-yoga or dhyana-yoga one has
to eventually approach the bhakti-yoga platform, and then paramatma,
iSvara, puman, etc., are all clearly understood. It is recommended in the
Second Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam that whether one is a devotee, or
fruitive actor, or liberationist, if he is intelligent enough, he should engage
himself with all seriousness in the process of devotional service. It is also
explained that whatever one desires which is obtainable by fruitive activities,
even if one wants to be elevated to higher planets, can be achieved simply
by execution of devotional service. Since the Supreme Lord is full in six
opulences, He can bestow any one of them upon the worshiper.

The one Supreme Personality of Godhead reveals Himself to different
thinkers as the Supreme Person, or impersonal Brahman, or Paramatma.
Impersonalists merge into the impersonal Brahman, but that is not achieved
by worshiping the impersonal Brahman. If one takes to devotional service
and at the same time desires to merge into the existence of the Supreme
Lord, he can achieve that. If someone desires at all to merge into the
existence of the Supreme, he has to execute devotional service.

The devotee can see the Supreme Lord face to face, but the jrani,
the empiric philosopher, or yogi cannot. They cannot be elevated to the
positions of associates of the Lord. There is no evidence in the scriptures
stating that by cultivating knowledge or worshiping the impersonal
Brahman one can become a personal associate of the Supreme Personality
