The Absolute Truth is manifested in three different stages according to our understanding. The Absolute Truth is one, but according to my capacity I understand Absolute Truth in three features. Those who are trying to understand the Absolute Truth by dint of his imperfect knowledge, he comes to the conclusion that Absolute Truth is impersonal. Suppose, I give you a concrete example: One man is in darkness; he wants to come to the light. So when he comes to the sunshine he sees the sunshine impersonal. But if he has got power to go to the sun globe, he sees something localized; and if he has power to see the sun god, he will see something personal. So those who are outside the localized aspect and personal aspect of Kṛṣṇa, those who are in the sunshine portion, or the effulgent portion . . . effulgence means minute particles of the soul assemble together, just like the sunshine is the combination of molecular shining parts. Similarly, we spiritual sparks, when we simply congregate one place, that is called brahmajyoti. In that portion, because they have no information of the personality of Godhead, they are envious. They fall down. Because the spirit soul by nature wants pleasure, so without . . . just like if you remain . . . suppose you go with your sputnik or aeroplane very high in the sky. If you don’t get a shelter in another platform or another planet, you come down again. You cannot remain there. Similarly, in our impersonal feature we cannot remain. And why we remain in the impersonal nature? Because we have no information of the Supreme Personality.
So this is the position. So because they cannot remain in that impersonal feature they come down again to these material varieties of life. That is called envious. Enviousness means because they have no knowledge they say, "No. The Supreme Absolute Truth cannot be person." That is enviousness. That is enviousness. Why the Supreme Personality should be impersonal? No. He is person, but we have no sufficient information of Him; therefore we are envious. Defying. Impersonalist is the person who is defying. The impersonalist, they will never agree that this Absolute Truth is person. That is enviousness. Therefore they fall down.
- āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ
- patanty adho
- (SB 10.2.32)
Patanty adho—falls down, because in the impersonal . . . just like in the sky, in the outer space you cannot build anything. If you want to construct anything—nice house, nice garden—you have to come to this planet. Similarly those who are impersonalists, they cannot have varieties of enjoyment; therefore they come down again on this material platform and they use their intellect for philanthropic or humanitarian work. Again they become entrapped by philosophy and knowledge and so on. Actually the sum and substance is those who are impersonalist, they are envious. Impersonalists are on the spiritual platform, but because they are envious of the Person, they fall down to the material world.