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Chapter 8. Attaining the Supreme

TEXT 20

paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo
'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatanah
yah sa sarvesu bhutesu
nasyatsu na vinasyati

SYNONYMS

parah--transcendental; tasmat--from that; tu--but; bhavah--nature; anyah--another; avyaktah--unmanifest; avyaktat--from the unmanifest; sanatanah--eternal; yah--that; sah--which; sarvesu--all; bhutesu--manifestation; nasyatsu--being annihilated; na--never; vinasyati--annihilated. 

TRANSLATION

Yet there is another nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.

PURPORT

Krsna's superior spiritual energy is transcendental and eternal. It is beyond all the changes of material nature, which is manifest and annihilated during the days and nights of Brahma. Krsna's superior energy is completely opposite in quality to material nature. Superior and inferior nature are explained in the Seventh Chapter.

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