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Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare
And now, the Invocation.
oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate
pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate
TRANSLATION
The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect,
all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete
wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because
He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains
the complete balance. PURPORT
The Complete Whole, or the Supreme Absolute Truth, is the complete Personality of Godhead.
Realization of impersonal Brahman or of Paramātmā, the Supersoul, is incomplete realization of
the Absolute Complete. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs.
5.1]. Realization of impersonal Brahman is realization of His sat feature, or His aspect
of eternity, and Paramātmā realization is realization of His sat and cit features, His
aspects of eternity and knowledge. But realization of the Personality of Godhead is realization
of all the transcendental features--sat, cit and ānanda, bliss. When one realizes the Supreme
Person, he realizes these aspects of the Absolute Truth in their completeness. Vigraha means
"form." Thus the Complete Whole is not formless. If He were formless, or if He were less than
His creation in any other way, He could not be complete. The Complete Whole must contain
everything both within and beyond our experience; otherwise He cannot be complete.
The Complete Whole, the Personality of Godhead, has immense potencies, all of which are as
complete as He is. Thus this phenomenal world is also complete in itself. The twenty-four
elements of which this material universe is a temporary manifestation are arranged to
produce everything necessary for the maintenance and subsistence of this universe. No other
unit in the universe need make an extraneous effort to try to maintain the universe. The
universe functions on its own time scale, which is fixed by the energy of the Complete
Whole, and when that schedule is completed, this temporary manifestation will be annihilated
by the complete arrangement of the Complete Whole.
All facilities are given to the small complete units (namely the living beings) to enable
them to realize the Complete Whole. All forms of incompleteness are experienced due to incomplete
knowledge of the Complete Whole. The human form of life is a complete manifestation of
the consciousness of the living being, and it is obtained after evolving through 8,400,000
species of life in the cycle of birth and death. If in this human life of full consciousness
the living entity does not realize his completeness in relation to the Complete Whole, he loses
the chance to realize his completeness and is again put into the evolutionary cycle by
the law of material nature. Because we do not know that there is a complete
arrangement in nature for our maintenance, we make efforts to utilize the resources of
nature to create a so-called complete life of sense enjoyment. Because the living entity
cannot enjoy the life of the senses without being dovetailed with the Complete Whole,
the misleading life of sense enjoyment is illusion. The hand of a body is a complete
unit only as long as it is attached to the complete body. When the hand is severed from
the body, it may appear like a hand, but it actually has none of the potencies of a hand.
Similarly, living beings are part and parcel of the Complete Whole, and if they are severed
from the Complete Whole, the illusory representation of completeness cannot fully satisfy them.
The completeness of human life can be realized only when one engages in the service of the
Complete Whole. All services in this world--whether social, political, communal, international
or even interplanetary--will remain incomplete until they are dovetailed with the Complete
Whole. When everything is dovetailed with the Complete Whole, the attached parts and
parcels also become complete in themselves.