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TEXT 22 purusah sa parah partha
SYNONYMS  purusah--the
Supreme Personality; sah--He; parah--the Supreme, than whom
no one is greater; partha--O son of Prtha; bhaktya--by devotional
service; labhyah--can be achieved; tu--but; ananyaya--unalloyed,
undeviating devotion; yasya--whom; antah-sthani--within;
bhutani--all of this material manifestation; yena--by whom;
sarvam--all; idam--whatever we can see; tatam--distributed.
TRANSLATION The Supreme
Personality of Godhead, who is greater than all, is attainable by unalloyed
devotion. Although He is present in His abode, He is all-pervading, and
everything is situated within Him.
PURPORT It is here clearly
stated that the supreme destination from which there is no return is the
abode of Krsna, the Supreme Person. The Brahma-samhita describes
this supreme abode as ananda-cinmaya-rasa, a place where everything
is full of spiritual bliss. Whatever variegatedness is manifest there is
all of the quality of spiritual bliss--there is nothing material. All variegatedness
is expanded as the spiritual expansion of the Supreme Godhead Himself,
for the manifestation there is totally of the spiritual energy, as explained
in Chapter Seven. As far as this material world is concerned, although
the Lord is always in His supreme abode, He is nonetheless all-pervading
by His material energy. So by His spiritual and material energies He is
present everywhere--both in the material and in the spiritual universes.
Yasyantah-sthani means that everything is sustained by Him, whether
it be spiritual or material energy.
It is clearly
stated here that only by bhakti, or devotional service, can one
enter into the Vaikuntha (spiritual) planetary system. In all the Vaikunthas
there is only one Supreme Godhead, Krsna, who has expanded Himself into
millions and millions of plenary expansions. These plenary expansions are
four-armed, and They preside over the innumerable spiritual planets. They
are known by a variety of names--Purusottama, Trivikrama, Kesava, Madhava,
Aniruddha, Hrsikesa, Sankarsana, Pradyumna, Sridhara, Vasudeva, Damodara,
Janardana, Narayana, Vamana, Padmanabha, etc. These plenary expansions
are likened unto the leaves of a tree, and the main tree is likened to
Krsna. Krsna, dwelling in Goloka Vrndavana, His supreme abode, systematically
conducts all affairs of both universes (material and spiritual) without
a flaw by power of His all-pervasiveness.
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