252 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 24
Godhead, Paramatma, is situated in everyone’s heart, and from Him
come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. The Lord reveals
Himself in proportion to one’s surrender to Him. Ye yatha mam prapa-
dyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham. In responsive cooperation, the
Lord reveals Himself in proportion to one’s surrender. That which is
revealed to one who fully surrenders is different from what is revealed to
one who surrenders partially. Everyone naturally surrenders to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, either directly or indirectly. The con-
ditioned soul surrenders to the laws of nature in material existence, but
when one fully surrenders to the Lord, material nature does not act upon
him. Such a fully surrendered soul is favored by the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead directly. Mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam
taranti te. One who has fully surrendered to the Lord has no fear of the
modes of material nature, for everything is but an expansion of the
Lord’s glories (sarvam khalv idarh brahma), and these glories are gradu-
ally revealed and realized. The Lord is the supreme purifier (param
brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan). The more one is
purified and the more he wants to know about the Supreme, the more the
Lord reveals to him. Full knowledge of Brahman, Paramatma and
Bhagavan is revealed to the pure devotees. The Lord says in Bhagavad-
gita (10.11):
tesam evanukampartham
aham ajrdnajam tamah
nasayamy dtma-bhavastho
Jnana-dipena bhdsvata
“Out of compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with
the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.”
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ittham adisya rajanarh
harir antaradhiyata
so ’nvavaiksata tam kadlam
yam hrsikesa ddisat
