194 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

artificial and imaginary, but because we belong to the sect, therefore we took
it for granted to be the right interpretation. We shall be very glad to hear
You if You explain further the Vedanta Sutra by direct interpretation.”

After this, Lord Chaitanya explained each and every verse of the Vedanta
by direct interpretation. He thus explained the word Brahman. Brahman means
the greatest, and the direct interpretation of greatest is the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. Greatest means full with six opulences. The Supreme Personality
of Godhead is the Reservoir of all wealth, all fame, all strength, all beauty,
all knowledge, and all renunciation. When Lord Krishna was present Per-
sonally on the Earth, He exhibited these six opulences in full. Nobody was
richer than Lord Krishna, nobody was more learned than Krishna, nobody
was more beautiful than Krishna, nobody was stronger than Krishna, nobody
was more famous than Krishna, and nobody was more renounced than Krishna.
Therefore the Supreme Personality of Krishna is the Supreme Brahman. This
is confirmed in the Bhagavad Gita, Tenth Chapter, when Arjuna thus addressed
Him: “You are Param Brahman,” the Supreme Brahman. Therefore, Brahman
means the Greatest, and the greatest means the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Krishna. He is the Shelter of the Absolute Truth, Para Tattwa,
because He is Param Brahman. But, at the same time, in all His opulences
and exhibitions of wealth, fame, strength, beauty, knowledge and renuncia-
tion, there is nothing material. Everything spiritual and transcendental in all
the Vedic verses and hymns indicates that Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Krishna. Wherever, therefore, the word Brahman appears in the Vedas, it
should be understood to indicate Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The intelligent person at once replaces the Name Krishna wherever there is
the word Brahman.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental to the material
modes of Nature, but He is fully qualified with transcendental qualities. To
accept the Supreme as impersonal is to deny the manifestation of spiritual
energies. When the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Brahman, is full with
spiritual energies, and somebody simply accepts His impersonal exhibition of
spiritual energy, then he does not accept this Absolute Truth in full. To accept
It in full means to accept the spiritual variegatedness also, which is transcendental
to the material modes of Nature. Therefore, failing to indicate the Supreme
Lord, the impersonalist conception is incomplete.

The approved method of understanding the Supreme Personality of God-
head, Krishna, is the path of devotional service, as is confirmed in every Vedic
