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truth.” The yogis and jidnis—that is, the mystic yogis and the imper-
sonalists—can understand the Absolute Truth as impersonal or localized,
but although such realized souls are above ordinary human beings, they
cannot understand how the Supreme Absolute Truth can be a person.
Therefore it is said that out of many siddhas, the souls who have already
realized the Absolute Truth, one may understand Krsna, who exactly
resembles a human being (nardkrti). This human form was explained by
Krsna Himself after He manifested the virdt-ripa. The virat-nipa is not
the original form of the Lord; the Lord’s original form is Dvibhuja-
$yamasundara, Muralidhara, the Lord with two hands, playing a flute
(yarn §yamasundaram acintya-guna-svaripam). The Lord’s forms are
proof of His inconceivable qualities. Although the Lord maintains in-
numerable universes within the period of His breath, He is dressed with
a form exactly like that of a human being. That does not mean, however,
that He is a human being. This is His original form, but because He looks
like a human being, those with a poor fund of knowledge consider Him
an ordinary man. The Lord says:
avajananti mam midha
manusim tanum Gsritam
param bhavam ajananto
mama bhita-mahesvaram
“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know
My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be.”
(Bg. 9.11) By the Lord’s param bhavam, or transcendental nature, He is
the all-pervading Paramatmé living in the core of the hearts of all living
entities, yet He looks like a human being. Mayavada philosophy says that
the Lord is originally impersonal but assumes a human form and many
other forms when He descends. Actually, however, He is originally like a
human being, and the impersonal Brahman consists of the rays of His
body (yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti).
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