Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 410
किमपि सततबोधं केवलानन्दरूपं
निरुपममतिवेलं नित्यमुक्तं निरीहम् ।
निरवधिगगनाभं निष्कलं निर्विकल्पं
हृदि कलयति विद्वान् ब्रह्म पूर्णं समाधौ ॥
kimapi satatabodhaṃ kevalānandarūpaṃ
nirupamamativelaṃ nityamuktaṃ nirīham |
niravadhigaganābhaṃ niṣkalaṃ nirvikalpaṃ
hṛdi kalayati vidvān brahma pūrṇaṃ samādhau |
(Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 410)
Through Samadhi, the wise realize the infinite Brahman in the heart as something (inexplicable) of the essence of eternal Knowledge and complete Bliss, which is unparalleled, which is beyond all limitations, which is ever free, which has no activity and which is indivisible and absolute like the limitless sky.
Brahman is the formless God, Paramatma is the God in the every living beings heart, Bhagavan is the God which has form and he is the supreme. Although the Lord has 3 different forms yet he is the one and only God. Yogis, they see Bhagavān as Paramātmā. Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. So all of them are on the platform but realization different. Gradually develop. Brahman realization is also spiritual realization. Paramātmā realization also a spiritual realization and Bhagavān realization is also spiritual, but the perfect spiritual realization is Bhagavān realization. It includes Paramātmā and Brahman, everything. The yogis can understand the Paramātmā feature of the Absolute Truth.
- Paramātmā means the Supersoul who is situated within everyone's heart. And the personal feature of the Lord is realized by the bhaktas, or the devotees.
- God is the supreme person, whose form is eternal and full of bliss and knowledge.
- God has innumerable forms, of which the original is Krishna, a beautiful dark-blue cowherd boy who plays the flute and sports a peacock feather on His head.
- God is unlimited in all respects.
- God is the source of everything.
- God can be seen by devotees whose vision is purified by unalloyed love.
- God attracts everyone, either directly or through His material energy.
- God knows everything—past, present, and future.
- God has His eternal home, Goloka Vrindavana, in the spiritual world.
- God’s all-powerful Narayana expansions rule innumerable spiritual planets, called Vaikunthas.
- Although God expands forms equal to Himself in power, He is never diminished in the least.
- God breathed the Vedas, which contain all knowledge required for human existence.
- God spoke the Bhagavad-gita five thousand years ago.
- God is all-loving, and He created each of us to enjoy eternally with Him in one of His innumerable forms.
- In His original form as Krishna, God enjoys the most intimate exchanges with His confidential devotees.
- God especially enjoys with His pleasure potency, Srimati Radharani.
- God’s agents manage the universe while He enjoys with His devotees.
- Though eternally residing in Goloka Vrindavana, God is simultaneously present everywhere, even within the atom.
- As the original male, God impregnates nature with rebellious souls, who then take on material bodies.
- As the Supersoul, God accompanies us throughout our sojourn in the material world.
- We living beings are infinitesimal parts of God, and our qualities—consciousness, the will to live, and so on—are samples of His unlimited qualities.
- God is fully present in the sound of His names, which are identical with Him.
- God appears in the form of the Deity to accept our worship.
- God is called Bhagavan (“possessor of opulence”) because He possesses in full the six primary opulence: beauty, wealth, strength, fame, knowledge, and renunciation.
- God comes to this world repeatedly in various forms to subdue the demonic, please His devotees, and reestablish religion.
- God descended five hundred years ago as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and introduced the chanting of His names as the religion for the age.
- God controls the sun, the rain, nature—everything—and unlike us is never subject to anyone’s control.
- The powerful forces of nature are only a hint of God’s omnipotence.
- God directs the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the universe.
- In His form as Maha-Vishnu, God creates millions of universes when He exhales and destroys them when He inhales—one breath taking hundreds of trillions of years.
- God’s expansion Ananta Sesha, who has innumerable mouths, has never been able to adequately describe God’s glories, although trying to do so eternally.



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