SB 2.10.35
TEXT 35
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TEXT
अमुनी भगवद्रूपे मया ते ह्यनुवर्णिते ।
उभे अपि न गृह्णन्ति मायासृष्टे विपश्चितः ॥ ३५ ॥ amuni bhagavad-rūpe
maya te hy anuvarnite
ubhe api na grhnanti
maya-srste vipas-citaḥ
amuni-all these; bhagavat-unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead; rūpe-in the forms; maya-by me; te-unto you; hi-certainly; anuvarnite-described respectively; ubhe-both; api-also; na-never; grhnanti-accepts; maya-external; srste-being so manifested; vipas-citaḥ-the learned one who knows.
TRANSLATION
Both the above forms of the Lord, as just described unto you from the material angle of vision, are not accepted by the pure devotees of the Lord who know Him well.
PURPORT
The impersonalists think of the Absolute Personality of Godhead in two different ways, as above mentioned. On the one hand they worship the Lord in His visva-rūpa or all-pervading universal form, and on the other they think of the Lord's unmanifested, indescribable, subtle form. The theories of pantheism and monism are respectively applicable to these two conceptions of the Supreme as gross and subtle, but both of them are rejected by the learned pure devotees of the Lord because they are aware of the factual position. This is very clearly mentioned in the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna's experience of the visva-rūpa of the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna.
adrsta-pūrvam hrsito 'smi drstva
bhayena ca pravyathitam mano me tad eva me darsaya deva rūpam prasida devesa jagannivasa (Bg. 11.45) Arjuna, as a pure devotee of the Lord, never previously saw the contemplated universal form of the Lord (visva-rūpa), but when he did see, his curiosities became satisfied. But he was not happy to see such a form of the Lord because of his attachment as a pure devotee. He was therefore afraid to see the gigantic form of the Lord. He therefore prayed to the Lord to assume His fourhanded Narayana or Krsna form, which alone could please him (Arjuna). Undoubtedly the Lord has the supreme potency to exhibit Himself in multifarious forms, but the pure devotees of the Lord are interested in His forms as are eternally exhibited in the abode of the Lord, known as the tripad-vibhūti or kingdom of God. The Lord in the tripad-vibhūti abode exhibits Himself in two forms, either with four hands or with two hands. The visva-rūpa exhibited in the material manifestation has unlimited hands and unlimited dimensions with everything unlimited. The pure devotees of the Lord worship Him in His Vaikuntha forms as Narayana or Krsna. Sometimes the same Vaikuntha forms of the Lord are in the material world also by His grace as Sri Rama, Sri Krsna, Sri Narasimhadeva, etc., and thus the pure devotees also worship them. Usually the features shown in the material world have no existence in the Vaikuntha planets, and thus they are not accepted by the pure devotees. What the pure devotees worship from the very beginning are eternal forms of the Lord existing in the Vaikuntha planets. The nondevotee impersonalists imagine the material forms of the Lord, and ultimately they merge in the impersonal brahmajyoti of the Lord, whereas the pure devotees of the Lord are worshipers of the Lord both in the beginning and also in the perfect stage of salvation, eternally. The worship of the pure devotee never stops, whereas the worship of the impersonalist stops after his attainment of salvation, being merged in the impersonal form of the Lord known as brahmajyoti. Therefore the pure devotees of the Lord are described here as vipascita, or the learned who are in the knowledge of the Lord perfectly.
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