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are, indirectly, expansions of the expansions of Krishna. But the Krishna Name
mentioned there is the Original Personality of Godhead, and He appears on
this Earth, in this Universe or in any other Universe, when there is a disturb-
ance created by the demons, who are always trying to disrupt the administra-
tion of the demigods.

To understand Krishna there are three different processes: the process of
empiric philosophical speculation, the process of meditation in the mystic
Yoga system, and the process of Krishna Consciousness, or devotional service.
Accordingly, in these different processes: 1) by empiric philosophical specula-
tion, the impersonal Brahman feature of Krishna is understood; 2) by the
process of meditation or Yoga mysticism, the feature of the Supersoul, the
All-pervading expansion of Krishna, is understood; and 3) by devotional
service in full Krishna Consciousness, the Original Personality of Godhead,
Krishna is realized.

In this connection Lord Chaitanya quotes first from the Srimad Bhagwatam,
First Canto, Second Chapter, which states that those who are knowers of the
Absolute Truth describe the Absolute Truth in three features: some describe
the Absolute as impersonal Brahman, and some describe the Absolute Truth
as the localized All-pervading Supersoul, and some know that the Absolute
Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. In other words,
Brahman, the impersonal manifestation, and Paramatma, the localized mani-
festation, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are One and the same;
but, according to the different processes adopted, He is realized in different
features—Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan.

Impersonal Brahman realization is simple realization of the effulgence
emanating from the transcendental Body of Krishna. We compare this efful-
gence of the transcendental Body of Krishna to the sunshine: just as the sun
disc is there, the sun planet is there, and the Sungod is there, and the sunshine
is the shining effulgence of that original Sungod. Similarly, Brahmajyoti, the
spiritual effulgence, impersonal Brahman, is nothing but the Personal efful-
gence of Krishna.

To support this analysis Lord Chaitanya quotes one important verse from
Brahma Samhita, where Lord Brahma says: “I worship the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, Govinda, by Whose Personal effulgence there is the unlimited
manifestation of the Brahmajyoti, and in that Brahmajyoti (the impersonal
manifestation of Krishna’s Bodily effulgence) there are innumerable Universes,
each full of innumerable planets.”

Lord Chaitanya further says that the Paramatma, the All-pervading feature
