Text 26] Activities of Kapila 1445

Supreme Personality of Godhead. As soon as we are reestablished in our
original position of servitorship to the Supreme Lord, we begin to forget
the necessities of the body, and at last we forget the body.

Sometimes in a dream we get a particular type of body with which to
work in the dream. I may dream that I am flying in the sky or that I have
gone into the forest or some unknown place. But as soon as I am awake |
forget all these bodies. Similarly, when one is Krgna conscious, fully
devoted, he forgets all his changes of body. We are always changing bodies,
beginning at birth from the womb of our mother. But when we are
awakened to Krsna consciousness we forget all these bodies. The bodily
necessities become secondary, for the primary necessity is the engagement
of the soul in real spiritual life. The activities of devotional service in full
Krsna consciousness are the cause of our being situated in transcendence.
The words bhagavaty atma-samésraye denote the Personality of Godhead as
the Supreme Soul, or the soul of everyone. In Bhagavad-gita Krsna says,
bijam mam sarva-bhutanam: “I am the seed of all entities.” By taking
shelter of the Supreme Being by the process of devotional service, one
becomes fully situated in the concept of the Personality of Godhead. As
described by Kapila, mad-guna-sruti-mdtrena: one who is fully Krsna
conscious, situated in the Personality of Godhead, is immediately satu-
rated with love of God as soon as he hears about the transcendental
qualities of the Lord.

Devahuti was fully instructed by her son Kapiladeva on how to concen-
trate her mind on the Visnu form in full detail. Following the instructions
of her son in the matter of devotional service, she contemplated the form
of the Lord within herself with great devotional love. That is the perfec-
tion of Brahman realization, or the mystic yoga system or devotional
service. At the ultimate issue, when one is fully absorbed in thought of the
Supreme Lord and meditates on Him constantly, that is the highest
perfection. Bhagavad-gita confirms that one who is always absorbed in
such a way is to be considered the topmost yogi.

The real purpose of all processes of transcendental realization—jiiana-
yoga, dhyana-yoga or bhakti-yoga—is to arrive at the point of devotional
service. If one endeavors simply to achieve knowledge of the Absolute
Truth or the Supersoul but has no devotional service, then he labors
without gaining the real result. This is compared to beating the husks of
wheat after the grains have already been removed. Unless one understands
the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be the ultimate goal, it is valueless
simply to speculate or perform mystic yoga practice. In the astanga-yoga
system, the seventh stage of perfection is dhyana. This dhyana is the
