226 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

sunshine. Where the sun disc is covered by the glaring sunshine, similarly
Your transcendental Form is covered by the Brahmajyoti. I desire to find You
within the Brahmajyoti—therefore please remove this glaring effulgence.”

In this verse of Isa Upanishad it is clearly stated that the eternal, blissful,
cognizant Form of the Supreme Lord is to be found within the glaring efful-
gence of Brahmajyoti. Brahmajyoti is the emanation from the Personal Body
of the Supreme Lord. Therefore the Personal Body of the Personality of
Godhead is the source of the Brahmajyoti as it is described in the Bhagavad
Gita. The impersonal Brahman is dependent on the Supreme Personality.
This is stated in the Hayasirsa Pancharatra; and, in any Upanishad or Vedic
Scripture, wherever there is talk first of the impersonal Brahman, the Supreme
Personality is finally established at the end. Just as we have quoted above from
the Isa Upanishad, the Supreme Absolute Truth is both impersonal and
Personal eternally, but His Personal aspect is more important than the imper-
sonal concept.

The Mantra in the Taetreia Upanishad is: Yato va imani bhutani jayante.
According to this Mantra this cosmic manifestation is an emanation from the
Supreme Absolute Truth, and it rests also in the Supreme Absolute Truth.
So the Absolute Truth becomes the ablative and causative and locative Per-
former. Therefore, as Performer, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
These are the symptoms of Personality. This Absolute Truth being ablative
Performer of this cosmic manifestation, it is to be concluded that He has
thinking, feeling and willing. Without these three psychic symptoms there is
no possibility of such a nice arrangement and design of the cosmic manifesta-
tion. Then again He is causative: He is the Original Designer of the cosmic
manifestation. And He is locative: everything is resting in His energy. These
are the clear symptoms of His Personality.

Then again, in the Chandyago Upanishad, when the Supreme Personality
of Godhead desires to become many, He turns over the material Nature. As
it is confirmed in the Taiitariya Upanishad, “The Lord glanced over the material
Nature.” There was no existence of the cosmic manifestation before His glanc-
ing, and therefore this glancing does not mean that He has a glancing or seeing
power which is materially contaminated. His seeing power existed before the
material Creation, and therefore His body is also not material. His thinking,
feeling and acting are transcendental. In other words it is to be concluded
that the mind by which the Lord thinks, feels and wills, is transcendental;
the eyes by which He glances over the material Nature are also transcendental.
All of His senses existed before the material Creation, and so He has His tran-
