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of worshipping the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sacrifices contained
in the ritualistic portion of the literature are to satisfy the Supreme Lord
Vishnu, because Yajna, sacrifice, is specifically meant to satisfy Vishnu. Vishnu’s
Name is also Yajneshwara, or Lord of the Sacrifices.

The neophytes are not all on the transcendental level, and therefore,
according to their situations in the different modes of material Nature, they
are advised to worship different types of demigods so that, gradually, they
may rise to the transcendental plane and be engaged in the devotional service
of Vishnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For example, it may be said
that some of the neophytes are attached to flesh-eating; and for them the
Puranas prescribe that they can eat flesh after offering it to the deity Kali.

The philosophical sections of the Vedic hymns are meant to enable one to
distinguish the Supreme Personality of Godhead from Maya. After indicating
the position of Maya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is approached in
pure devotional service. That is the purpose of philosophical speculation.
This is confirmed in the Bhagavad Gita in the Seventh Chapter: Bahunam
janmanam ante: “The philosophical speculators and empiric philosophers,
after speculating for many, many births, ultimately come unto the Supreme
Lord Krishna, and accept that Vasudeva (Krishna) is everything.” Therefore,
all Vedic rituals and different types of worship or philosophical speculation
ultimately aim at Krishna.

The Lord then told Sanatan Goswami about Krishna’s multiforms and
His unlimited opulence. He also described the nature of the spiritual mani-
festation, the material manifestation, and the manifestation of the living
entity. He also informed Sanatan Goswami that the planets in the Spiritual
Sky, known as Vaikunthas, and the Universes of the material manifestation,
are to be known as different types of manifestations; for they are creative mani-
festations of the two different types of energies—namely, the material energy
and the spiritual energy. Therefore, as far as Krishna Himself is concerned,
He is directly situated in His spiritual energy, or specifically in His internal
potency.

To help us understand the difference between the manifestation of the
spiritual energy and the material energy, there is clear analysis of the two
in the Second Canto of Srimad Bhagwatam. Also, Sukadeva Goswami, by
commenting on Verse One of the Tenth Canto, makes a similar clear, analy-
tical study. Lord Chaitanya accepts Sukadeva Goswami .as an authorized
commentator on the Srimad Bhagwatam. Therefore He quotes his writing in
this connection; and He explains that in the Tenth Canto of the Bhagwatam
