Getting To Know God
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without end, because the incarnations of Krishna in different galaxies do not know any interruption.

No one can appreciate the beauty of Krishna through the prescribed fulfillment of his state duty, nor by austerity, yoga (union or communion with God), culture of knowledge or prayer. Only beings established at the absolute level of love for God, who practice the devotional service out of pure love for Him, can taste the infinite beauty of Krishna. This beauty is the very essence of all excellence and is revealed only in Goloka Vrindavane, in his absolute kingdom. The compassion, fame, and other excellences present in the Person of Narayana are all bestowed on him by Krishna; but the sweetness and magnanimity of Krishna do not exist in Narayana. We only find them in Krishna, and in Him alone.

The Absolute Truth, God, possesses multiple and varied energies, and living beings, just like the cosmic manifestation, are only manifestations of its energies. The energies can not be separated from their source, so that the living beings and the cosmos constitute truths inseparable from the Absolute Truth from which they emanate and belong. The Absolute Truth, Krishna, God, the Supreme Person has an inconceivable power from which the cosmos proceeds. In other words, the Supreme Truth is the substance of which the living being and the cosmic manifestation are only derivatives. It is written in the Vedas:

“The Absolute Truth is the original reservoir of all the ingredients from which the material universe and living things are produced.”

God, Supreme Person, the One Absolute without a second, is the Master of inconceivable energies that no one else possesses. Shri Krishna is God, the Supreme Person. When we speak of the Supreme Lord, we add the word “Shri”, thus revealing that He fully possesses the six excellences, wealth, power, knowledge, beauty, fame and renunciation. In other words, He is eternally a person; otherwise, these six excellences can not be present in Him in their fullness. Therefore, when we call the Supreme and Absolute Truth (God) impersonal, it is for the sole purpose of establishing that it is not a person belonging to the material universe. In order to distinguish his spiritual body from matter bodies, some describe it as being impersonal from a material point of view. In other words, any form of material personality is rejected for the benefit of a spiritual personality with regard to God.

In truth, the Absolute Being has neither hands nor material legs, but He has spiritual hands and legs allowing him to accept all that is offered to Him. Neither does he have material eyes, but rather spiritual eyes through which He sees absolutely everything. Though devoid of material ears, He can also hear everything. His senses being perfect, He knows the past, the present and the future. In fact, He knows everything, but no one can know and understand it, because He escapes the material senses. Source of all emanations, He is the Supreme Person, the greatest of all beings, God.

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