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<div class="heading">The Lord is pure spirit, and only when the living being is in his pure spiritual state can he have all sorts of relationships with Him.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:MM 6|Mukunda-mala-stotra mantra 6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Brahma-saṁhitā describes each of His senses as omnipotent. The mundane eye can see but not hear, but His eyes can see, hear, eat, generate offspring, and so on. The śruti mantras say that He impregnates material nature with the seeds of living beings simply by casting His glance at her. He does not need any other kind of intercourse with mother nature to beget the living beings in her womb and become their father.</p>
<p>Therefore any relationship the Lord has with His many devotees—whether fatherhood, sonhood, or any other—is not at all material. The Lord is pure spirit, and only when the living being is in his pure spiritual state can he have all sorts of relationships with Him. Philosophers with a poor fund of knowledge cannot conceive of these positive spiritual relationships between the Lord and the all-spiritual living beings, and thus they simply think in terms of negating material relationships. In this way such philosophers naturally adopt the concept of impersonalism.</p>
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