and sunshine not different

Knowledge means information gathered from the Scriptures, and science means practical realization of the knowledge gathered from the Scriptures. It is scientific knowledge when it is gathered from the Scriptures through the practical application of the bona fide Spiritual Master, but when interpreted by mental concoction it is personal. By scientific understanding of the information from the Scripture, through the bona fide Spiritual Master, one learns, by one's own realization, each actual conception of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The transcendental Form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is different from material manifestation and different from the reactions of matter. Therefore, without scientific understanding of the Spiritual Form of the Personality of Godhead one becomes an impersonalist. The sunshine is itself an illumination, but that illumination is different from the Sun. Yet the Sun and the sunshine are not differently situated; without the Sun there is no sunshine, and without the sunshine there is no Sun.    (More...)

An analogy can be given with the sun globe and the sunshine: to remain in the sunshine does not mean one has gone to the sun globe. The temperature of the sun globe is different from the temperature of the sunshine. One who has gone through the sunshine in jet planes or in space ships has not necessarily gone to the sun globe. Although the sunshine and the sun globe are actually one and the same, still there is a distinction, for one is the energy and one is the energetic source. The absolute truth and His bodily effulgence are in the same way simultaneously one and different. Kamsa and Sisupala attained to the absolute truth, but they were not allowed to enter into the Goloka Vrndavana abode. Impersonalists and the enemies of the Lord are, because of attraction to God, allowed to enter into His kingdom, but they are not allowed to enter into the Vaikuntha planets or the Goloka Vrndavana planet of the Supreme Lord. To enter the kingdom and to enter the king's palace are not the same thing.    (More...)