904 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 22

vyaktam atmavatam atma
bhagavan atma-bhavanah

svanam anugrahayemam
siddha-rupt caraty ajah

vyaktam—clear; atmavatam—of the transcendentalists; atma—the goal of
life; bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; atma-bhavanah—
always wishing to elevate the living entities; ssanam—whose own devotees;
anugrahaya—just to show mercy; imam—this way; siddha-rupi—perfectly
self-realized; carati—travels; ajah—Narayana.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always anxious to elevate the
living entities, who are His parts and parcels, and for their special benefit,
the Lord travels all over the world in the form of self-realized persons like
you.

PURPORT

There are different kinds of transcendentalists, namely the janis, or
impersonalists, the mystic yogis, and, of course, all the devotees of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Kumaras, however, were both
yogis and jnanis and finally bhaktas later on. In the beginning they were
impersonalists, but later they developed devotional activities; therefore
they are the best of the transcendentalists. The devotees are representa-
tives of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and to elevate the condi-
tioned souls to their original consciousness, they travel all over the universes
to enlighten the conditioned souls about Krsna consciousness. The best
devotees are atmavat, or those who have fully realized the Supreme Soul.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, as Paramatma, is sitting within
everyone’s heart, trying to elevate everyone to the platform of Krsna
consciousness. Therefore He is called atma-bhavana. The Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead is always trying to give intelligence to the individual
soul to understand about Himself. He is always with the individual as a
friend sitting by the side of a friend, and He gives facilities to all living
entities according to their desires.

The word dtmavatam is significant in this verse. There are three different
kinds of devotees, namely kanistha-adhikari, madhyama-adhikari and ut-
tama-adhikari: the neophyte, the preacher, and the maha-bhagavata or the
highly advanced devotees. The highly advanced devotee is one who knows
the conclusion of the Vedas in full knowledge; thus he becomes a devotee.
