tatraikāvayavaṁ
dhyāyed
avyucchinnena cetasā
mano nirviṣayaṁ yuktvā
tataḥ kiñcana na smaret
padaṁ tat paramaṁ viṣṇor
mano yatra prasīdati
Translation
Thereafter, you should meditate upon the
limbs of Viṣṇu, one after another, without being deviated from the conception
of the complete body. Thus the mind becomes free from all sense objects. There
should be no other thing to be thought upon. Because the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Viṣṇu, is the Ultimate Truth, the mind becomes completely reconciled
in Him only.
Purport
Foolish persons, bewildered by the external energy of Viṣṇu, do
not know that the ultimate goal of the progressive search after happiness is to
get in touch directly with Lord Viṣṇu, the Personality of Godhead. Viṣṇu-tattva is an unlimited expansion
of different transcendental forms of the Personality of Godhead, and the
supreme or original form of viṣṇu-tattva is
Govinda, or Lord Kṛṣṇa, the supreme cause of all causes. Therefore, thinking of
Viṣṇu or meditating upon the transcendental form of Viṣṇu, specifically upon
Lord Kṛṣṇa, is the last word on the subject of meditation. This meditation may
be begun from the lotus feet of the Lord. One should not, however, forget or be
misled from the complete form of the Lord; thus one should practice thinking of
the different parts of His transcendental body, one after another. Here in this
verse, it is definitely assured that the Supreme Lord is not impersonal. He is
a person, but His body is different from those of conditioned persons like us.
Otherwise, meditation beginning from the praṇava (oṁkāra) up to the limbs of the personal body
of Viṣṇu would not have been recommended by Śukadeva Gosvāmī for the attainment
of complete spiritual perfection. The Viṣṇu forms of worship in great temples
of India are not, therefore, arrangements of idol worship, as they are wrongly
interpreted to be by a class of men with a poor fund of knowledge; rather, they
are different spiritual centers of meditation on the transcendental limbs of
the body of Viṣṇu. The worshipable Deity in the temple of Viṣṇu is identical
with Lord Viṣṇu by the inconceivable potency of the Lord. Therefore, a
neophyte’s concentration or meditation upon the limbs of Viṣṇu in the temple,
as contemplated in the revealed scriptures, is an easy opportunity for
meditation for persons who are unable to sit down tightly at one place and then
concentrate upon praṇava (oṁkāra) or the limbs of the body of Viṣṇu,
as recommended herein by Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the great authority. The common man
can benefit more by meditating on the form of Viṣṇu in the temple than on the oṁkāra, the spiritual combination of a-u-m as explained before. There is no
difference between oṁkāra and
the forms of Viṣṇu, but persons unacquainted with the science of Absolute Truth
try to create dissension by differentiating between the forms of Viṣṇu and that
of oṁkāra. Here it is indicated
that the Viṣṇu form is the ultimate goal of meditation, and as such it is
better to concentrate upon the forms of Viṣṇu than on impersonal oṁkāra. The latter process is also more
difficult than the former.
Srimad Bhagavatam 2.1.19
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