Text 16] The Perfect Society: Four Spiritual Classes 73
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His original form, has not en-
tered everything (apravistah), but in His impersonal form He has en-
tered (pravistah). Thus He has entered and not entered simultaneously.
This is also explained in Bhagavad-gita (9.4), wherein the Lord says:
maya tatam idam sarvam
jagad avyakta-mirtina
mat-sthani sarva-bhiitani
na caham tesv avasthitah
“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All
beings are in Me, but I am not in them.”” The Lord can defy Himself.
Thus there is variety in unity (ekatvam bahutvam). ;
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evam vidho brahmacari
vanaprastho yatir grhi
caran vidita-vijnanah
param brahmadhigacchati
evam vidhah—in this way; brahmacdri—whether one is a
brahmacari; vanaprasthah—or one is in the vanaprastha-asrama;
yatih—or in the sannydsa-dsrama; grhi—or in the grhastha-dsrama;
caran—by practice of self-realization and understanding of the Absolute
Truth; vidita-vijidnah—fully conversant with the science of the Ab-
solute Truth; param—the Supreme; brahma—the Absolute Truth;
adhigacchati—one can understand.
TRANSLATION
By practicing in this way, whether one be in the brahmacari-
asrama, grhastha-asrama, vanaprastha-asrama or sannyasa-asrama,
one must always realize the all-pervading presence of the Supreme
