Mantra Sixteen of The Sri Isopanisad
pussan ekarse yama surya prajapatya
vyuha rasmin samuha
tejo yat te rupam kalyana-tamam
tat te pasyami yo 'sav asau purasah so 'ham asmi
Srila Prabhupada’s Translation
O my Lord, O primeval philosopher, maintainer of the universe, O regulating principle, destination of the pure devotees, well-wisher of the progenitors of mankind, please remove the effulgence of Your transcendental rays so that I can see Your form of bliss. You are the eternal Supreme Personality of Godhead, like unto the sun, as am I.
My Notes
"In the Brahmajyoti the spirit souls on account of their impersonal views are devoid of a body, exactly like here in Maya there are ghosts who are devoid of any gross bodies. The spirit souls in the Brahmajyoti, although they have no desire for sense gratification, still they feel inconvenience like the ghost, and they fall down again in the Maya's atmosphere and develop a material body."
~Letter to Rupanuga -- July 24, 1969
Because they believe the lord is impersonal, they cannot attain a higher situation than Brahman realization. But, as Srila Prabhupada commented so perfectly above, the Lord cannot be impersonal, because if he was, he could not be the ever well-wisher of the entire universe. Therefore impersonalist philosophy is defeted in the above verse and commentary be His Devine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
By a copy of his Sri Isopanisad here.
pussan ekarse yama surya prajapatya
vyuha rasmin samuha
tejo yat te rupam kalyana-tamam
tat te pasyami yo 'sav asau purasah so 'ham asmi
Srila Prabhupada’s Translation
O my Lord, O primeval philosopher, maintainer of the universe, O regulating principle, destination of the pure devotees, well-wisher of the progenitors of mankind, please remove the effulgence of Your transcendental rays so that I can see Your form of bliss. You are the eternal Supreme Personality of Godhead, like unto the sun, as am I.
My Notes
- The impersonalist philosopher, blinded as they are by the Brahmajyoti, can realize neither the factual abode of the lord nor His transcendental form.
- Since He is addressed as the primeval philosopher and maintainer and well-wisher of the universe, the Supreme Truth cannot be impersonal.
- Bhagavat-sandarbha by Srila Jiva Goswami says: "The full potency of the Absolute Truth is not realized in the Brahmajyoti; therefore Brahman realization is only a partial realization of the Personality of Godhead."
"In the Brahmajyoti the spirit souls on account of their impersonal views are devoid of a body, exactly like here in Maya there are ghosts who are devoid of any gross bodies. The spirit souls in the Brahmajyoti, although they have no desire for sense gratification, still they feel inconvenience like the ghost, and they fall down again in the Maya's atmosphere and develop a material body."
~Letter to Rupanuga -- July 24, 1969
Because they believe the lord is impersonal, they cannot attain a higher situation than Brahman realization. But, as Srila Prabhupada commented so perfectly above, the Lord cannot be impersonal, because if he was, he could not be the ever well-wisher of the entire universe. Therefore impersonalist philosophy is defeted in the above verse and commentary be His Devine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
By a copy of his Sri Isopanisad here.
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