400 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 12
localized Paramatma and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Ultimate
realization of the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
called Vasudeva by His devotees. Unless one is blessed with the dust
from the feet of a pure devotee on his head. one cannot possibly become a
devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Jada Bharata also told about his own previous birth and informed the
King that by the grace of the Lord he still remembered all the incidents
of his past life. Due to the activities of his past life, Jada Bharata was
being very cautious and was therefore assuming the characteristics of a
deaf and dumb man to avoid mingling with the material world. Associ-
ation with the material modes of nature is very powerful. The bad associ-
ation of materialistic men can be avoided only in the association of
devotees. In the association of devotees, one is given an opportunity to
render devotional service in nine different ways—Sravanam kirtanam
visnoh smaranam pdda-sevanam arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam
atma-nivedanam. In this way, in the association of devotees, one can pass
over material association, cross over the ocean of nescience and return
home, back to Godhead.

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anisaya fraaeqteg-
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fayereaaaary—geaq U2 I
rahiigana uvaca
namo namah karana-vigrahaya
svariipa-tucchikrta-vigrahaya
namo ’vadhita dvya-bandhu-linga-
nigudha-nityanubhavaya tubhyam

rahiganah uvdca—King Rahigana said; namah—my respectful
obeisances; namah—obeisances: karana-vigrahaya—to one whose body
emanates from the Supreme Person, the cause of all causes: svariipa-
