impersonal Brahman and Vedanta

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>From CC Madhya 6.147:

 

[sCM is speaking]: "The word 'Brahman' indicates the complete Supreme

Personality of Godhead, who is Sri Krsna. That is the verdict of all Vedic

literature."

 

Earlier in Madhya 6.138: "The Brahma-sutra, compiled by Srila Vyasadeva, is as

radiant as the sun. One who tries to interpret its meaning simply covers that

sunshine with a cloud."

 

6.140 (purport): "Brahman means brhattva, the greatest of all. The greatest of

all is Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead...Whether one says

'Brahman' or "the Supreme Personality of Godhead," the fact is the same, for

they are identical. In BG, Arjuna accepted Krsna as param brahma param dhama.

Although the living entities or material nature are sometimes described as

Brahman, Parma Brahma--the Supreme, the greatest of all Brahmans--is still

Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

 

TLC (covering the same portion of CC), page 267: "The word Brahman means 'the

greatest,' and when we speak of the greatest we immediately refer to the

Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all emanations. Unless the

greatest possesses six opulences in full, he cannot be called the greatest. The

greatest, who is full in six opulences, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

In other words, the Supreme Brahman is the Supreme Personality of Godhead as

well...The conceptions of the impersonal Brahman and the localized Supersoul

are contained within the understanding of the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

 

Rupa-vilasa dasa