mountain viewed from different angles

The Absolute Truth are differently understood according to the different position of the student. The Absolute Truth... Some of them understand that Absolute Truth as impersonal Brahman. And some of them understand the Absolute Truth as localized Paramatma. And some of them understand the Absolute Truth as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, or Visnu. They are not different. Brahman, Paramatma and the Supreme Personality of Godhead-they are one. They are simply different phases. It is simply angle of vision. Just like a mountain from a very distant place, you'll see just like hazy cloud. And if you come nearer, then you see something green, very high, raised, I mean to say, earth. That is one vision. But you are seeing the mountain. From the distant place you see it is hazy cloud. As you come nearer, you see something green. And if you actually enter the mountain, you'll find there are so many houses, so many trees, so many animals. The vision is the same mountain, but on account of my different position, I see hazy cloud or something green or something animated. But the final stage is the varieties. A mountain, there are so many trees, so many animals, so many men, so many houses-varieties.    (More...)