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Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.21
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
New York, April 13, 1973
Pradyumna das, New York, April 13, 1973:
krsnaya vasudevaya devaki-nandanaya ca nanda-gopa-kumaraya govindaya namo namah
“Let me therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devaki, the boy of Nanda and the other cowherd men of Vrndavana, and the enlivener of the cows and senses.”
Prabhupada: So in the beginning Kuntidevi said that namasye purusam tvadyam isvaram prakrteh param: “I offer my obeisances unto the person, purusam, who is prakrteh param, who is beyond this material manifestation.” Krishna is complete spirit soul, Supersoul. He has no material body. So in the beginning Kuntidevi gave us this understanding that God, the supreme purusa… Purusa means person. He’s not imperson. Purusa. But He’s not a purusa of this material world, not a personality of this material creation. That is to be understood. The impersonalists cannot accommodate in their poor fund of knowledge how the Supreme Absolute Truth can become a person, because whenever they think of person they think of a person of this material world. That is their defect. So they have poor fund of knowledge. Why God should be a person of this material world? So that was cleared in the beginning. Prakrteh param, beyond this material creation, but He is a person. Full Lecture
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