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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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"Only surrender to Me." So this is the verdict of all Vedic literatures. But if somebody thinks that "I can worship Brahmā, I can worship Kālī, I can worship Śiva, or many other demigods, and still the same thing," this is impersonalist view. It is not a fact. Because according to them, "The Absolute Truth is impersonal. There is no question of personality.".
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So God is one, but there are different kinds of demigods. That is also a fact. They are accepted as different parts and parcels of God, as we are also. The demigods are also living entities. They are not ''viṣṇu-tattva''. There are ''viṣṇu-tattva'', ''jīva-tattva'' and ''śakti-tattva''. ''Viṣṇu-tattva'' is the Supreme Absolute Truth, ''jīva-tattva'' is part and parcel, and ''śakti-tattva'' is the energy of God. 

So the demigods . . . you can become a demigod. You can become, if you follow the process how to become, then you become one day the demigod in the sun planet. It is not difficult. You can become one day even Lord Brahmā. Just like you can become one day President Nixon, like him. That requires your qualification. But you can. But you cannot become Kṛṣṇa or Nārāyaṇa. That is not possible. God is one. You cannot become God, but you can become part and parcel of God, more powerful. That is possible. 

Just like you are all Americans, but some of you can become a big officer in the government—the president, the secretary, the governor, but their position is better than ordinary man—similarly, the demigods are like that. They are different officers of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. These things are described in ''Bhāgavatam'', that the sun rises under the order of the Supreme Lord. The moon rises under the order of the Supreme Lord. The ocean is not disturbing; it is calm and quiet . . . not calm and quiet; it is in its position by the order of the Supreme Lord.

So everyone is acting under the Supreme Lord. And ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'' says, ''ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa'': "Yes, the Supreme Lord is only Kṛṣṇa." ''Ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa'', ''āra saba bhṛtya'' ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.142|CC Adi 5.142]]). ''Āra'', "Any other demigod or even ''viṣṇu-tattva'', even Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu"—there are so many, I mean to say, manifestation of ''viṣṇu-tattva''—"they're all subordinate to Kṛṣṇa." ''Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:Bs. 5.1|Bs. 5.1]]). So here the point is that just direct people to Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Lord. Don't misguide them that, "Here is another god, here is another god, here is another . . ." The ''Bhagavad-gītā'' also, in the last instruction, Bhagavān says, ''mām ekam''. ''Ekam'' means one. "Only surrender to Me." 

So this is the verdict of all Vedic literatures. But if somebody thinks that, "I can worship Brahmā, I can worship Kālī, I can worship Śiva, or many other demigods, and still the same thing," this is impersonalist view. It is not a fact.  Because according to them, "The Absolute Truth is impersonal. There is no question of personality. But because we cannot concentrate our devotional energy or attention in the impersonal feature, therefore let us imagine some form of God." 

This is the, I mean to say, principle of the impersonalists. They imagine some form of God, and they get perfection. And ultimately they become impersonal, merge into the effulgence, ''brahma-jyotir''. That is their philosophy. The Māyāvāda philosophy and Vaiṣṇava philosophy differs here. Our ''Bhāgavata'' says that ultimate truth, Absolute Truth, is a person. Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. ''Brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.11|SB 1.2.11]]). Vyāsadeva says that "You direct people, attention, to the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
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