“Spirit is realized in three phases, brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate. The supreme spirit is realized in three phases. An example is given, just like you see from a distant place the mountain, you see just like a hazy cloud. You go forward, you will see something, substance, green, and if you enter it you’ll see so many trees, so many animals. So you are seeing the same object but according to your understanding, somebody is saying, “Oh, it is a cloud.” Somebody is saying, “It is some green hill,” and somebody is saying, “No, it is very nice place.” It is a question of where he is standing, to understand God. So those who are standing in distant place, for them imperson. Just like we are seeing the sunshine imperson, and the sun globe localized, and if you have got capacity to enter into the sun globe, you’ll see sun god. Similarly, God is realized in three capacities, brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate. Either impersonal Brahman, or localized Paramatma, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But if you somehow or other approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is Krsna.
Then you understand the other two things. And Krsna is explaining, brahmano aham pratistha. “I am the resting place of brahmajyoti.” Brahma-samhita says, yasya prabha [Bs. 5.40], this brahmajyoti, impersonal brahmajyoti is the bodily rays of Krsna. Similarly, Paramatma, isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese ’rjuna [Bg. 18.61], that is another feature of Krsna. He is sitting in everyone’s heart. Just like the sun is reflected in thousands and millions of lakes. There are no so many suns, there is only one sun. How you will know? So God is one but according to realization, one who has seen the reflections, he says, “Oh, there are millions of suns.” And one who has not seen the sun god, he has seen only sunshine, “Sun is impersonal.” It is a question of the person who is realizing. But actually God is a person, sat-cit-ananda-vigraha. That is perfect knowledge. We have got clear conception of God, sat-cit-ananda-vigraha, Krsna.
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