Brahman effulgence emanates from Kṛṣṇa's personal form; eternal servitude to Him is true liberation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — March 20, 1972, Bombay 720320LE-BOMBAY [35:40 Minutes] Lecture_720320LE-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: They think so'ham means "I am the Supreme." But that is not possible. How you are supreme? If you are supreme, why you have become like cats and dogs? They say, "It is my līlā," but this is all nonsense.
God’s līlā, Kṛṣṇa’s līlā, is in the Vṛndāvana. Why He should come to make a līlā like cats and dogs? So this is the wrong philosophy. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme, Nārāyaṇa, sometimes they say Nārāyaṇa has become daridra. How Nārāyaṇa can become daridra? lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.29] The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is being constantly served by hundreds and thousands of goddess of fortune, how He can be daridra?
These are manufactured words. You cannot find these words in the Vedic literature. They are concocted words. So here is the right interpretation by Vyāsadeva. We have to take from Vyāsadeva. Śukadeva Gosvāmī is reciting the verses written by his father, Vyāsadeva.
So he says that "Here is the person who is being searched out by the impersonalist." Enamored by the Brahman effulgence, they do not know wherefrom the Brahman effulgence is coming. Just like we may very much appreciate the sunshine, but the sunshine is not the origin. The origin is the sun globe. And the sun globe is also not origin. Within the sun globe there is sun-god, and his name is also known to the right person: Vivasvān.
So he is so glowing, that Vivasvān, sun-god, that his effulgence is being distributed as sunshine. imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam vivasvān manave prāha manur ikṣvākave 'bravīt [Bg. 4.1] These, all these scientific knowledge there are in the Vedic literature. The kṣatriya family… There are two kinds of kṣatriya family: who are coming from the sun and the moon. So Vivasvān, his son was Manu, his son was Ikṣvāku, and his descendants is called the sūrya-vaṁśa, in which Lord Rāmacandra appeared. So Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Lord, is not impersonal. Impersonal feature is His bodily effulgence, glaring of the body.
That is confirmed in the Brahmā-saṁhitā: yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭikoṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi-vibhūti-bhinnam tad brahma niṣkalam anantam aśeṣa-bhūtaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.40] This Brahman effulgence is the bodily glow of Kṛṣṇa. Yasya prabhā prabhavato. In the Bhagavad-gītā also it is said, brahmaṇo 'haṁ pratiṣṭhā [Bg. 14.27]: "I am the original source of this Brahman effulgence." Therefore Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that those who are seeking after Brahman effulgence, the origin point is here—Kṛṣṇa. Itthaṁ satāṁ brahma-sukhānubhūtyā [SB 10.12.11].
And dāsyaṁ gatānāṁ para-daivatena: and those who have dedicated their lives, those who have understood clearly, as it is instructed by Lord Caitanya, jīvera 'svarūpa' haya 'nitya-dāsa' [Cc. Madhya 20.108]: that is our svarūpa, actual constitutional position. We are eternal part-and-parcel servant, just like the part and parcel of your body, they’re all your servant. This finger is part and parcel of your body, but it is always serving the whole. That is the business.