CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Personal and

Impersonal Realization

The Puranas are called the supplementary Vedic literature, because some-
times in the original Vedas the subject matter is too difficult to be understood
by the common man. The Puranas, therefore, explain things nicely by differ-
ent stories and historical incidents. So, in the Srimad Bhagwatam it is stated in
the Tenth Canto, Fourteenh Chapter, that Maharaj Nanda and the cowherd
men and inhabitants of Vrindaban generally are very fortunate because the
Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Gobhead, full of bliss, is now engaged
there in His eternal Pastimes as their Friend.

According to Svetasvatara Upanishad, the Mantra of Apanipado javano
grahita comfirms that although Brahman has no materially created hands and
legs, still He walks very stately, and He accepts everything offered to Him.
These words suggest that He has transcendental limbs of the body, and there-
fore He is not impersonal. The person who does not understand the Vedic
principles simply stresses the impersonal material features of the Supreme
Absolute Truth, and thus unceremoniously calls the Absolute Truth imper-

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