Conclusion of Teachings to Sanatan Goswami I4I

In the Srimad Bhagwatam, Eleventh Canto, Second Chapter, verse 35,
it is stated that man’s fearfulness is due to his material conception of life and to
his forgetting his eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord. Therefore,
he finds himself having only perverted memories. Such things have happened
due to the spell of material energy. Therefore, a person with enough intelligence
will engage himself in full devotional service with the Supreme Lord as his
Spiritual Master and worshippable God. The purport is that nobody can attain
a revolution without being engaged in devotional service to the Lord. When,
however, he is free from this material contamination, he can fully engage him-
self in Krishna Consciousness.

In the Srimad Bhagwatam, Tenth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter, it is clearly
said that, for a person who is engaged in devotional service to understand things
as they are, but who lacks any intention of being engaged in Krishna Conscious-
ness, the trouble undergone for his understanding is his only achievement.
There is no substance to his life. Every living entity is part and parcel of the
Supreme Lord, and therefore it is the duty of every living entity to serve that
Supreme Whole. Without doing that the living entity falls into material
contamination, and his service is lost.

Lord Chaitanya then concluded that these six kinds of Atmarama engage
themselves in some kind of devotional service to Krishna. In other words,
all the transcendentalists at different times ultimately come to the understanding
of rendering devotional service to Krishna, and become fully Krishna con-
scious. Even when one is very learned, or if one is very extravangant, still,
he can be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

The six kinds of transcendentalists are the neophyte transcendentalist,
the absorbed transcendentalist, one actually situated in transcendence, a person
caring for liberation, persons actually liberated, and persons who are actually
engaged in their constitutional position. All of them are called Atmarama.
When a person becomes Atmarama, or a great thinker in Krishna Consciousness,
he is fully engaged in devotional service. There are many Atmaramas according
to the grammatical rules, but one word, Atmarama, is sufficient to represent
all other Atmaramas. In the collective sense all the Atmaramas are inclined to
worship the Supreme Lord Krishna.

The mystic who worships the Supersoul within himself is also called Atma-
rama. Such Atmarama yogis are of two kinds: the one is called Sagarbha,
the other is called Nigarbha. In Srimad Bhagwatam it is stated, in the Second
Canto, Second Chapter: “Some of the yogis meditate within the heart on the
localized situation of Vishnu, Who is four-handed with four symbols: the
