(8) Others see, in the meditation upon Him within their own body, the Personality of Godhead residing in the region of the heart, measuring eight inches, having four arms, carrying the lotus, the wheel of the chariot, the conch shell and the club.
(9) With His mouth expressing happiness, His eyes wide open like a lotus, His clothes yellowish like a Kadamba flower, bedecked with jewels and with golden ornaments studded with precious stones, He wears a glowing headdress with earrings.
(10) His feet are positioned on the whorl [bladerkrans] of the lotus hearts of the great mystics. On His chest He wears the beautifully engraved Kaustubha jewel [pure consciousness], and around His neck He has a fresh flower garland spreading its beauty. (11) With a decorative wrap around His waist, valuable finger rings, ringing leglets, bangles, oiled spotless bluish curly hair, and His beautiful smiling face He looks very pleasing.
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(12) His magnanimous pastimes and the glowing glances of His expression are indicative of the extensive benedictions of this particular transcendental form of the Lord one should focus upon as long as the mind can be fixed on it for the purpose of one's meditation.
(13) One should meditate upon the limbs one by one, starting from the feet up, until one sees His smiling face, and thus gradually taking control over the mind one departs in one's meditation for higher and higher spheres, and purifies that way the intelligence.
(14) As long as the materialist has not developed devotional service to this form of the Lord who is the seer of the mundane and transcendental worlds, he must, when he is finished with his prescribed duties, with proper attention remember the Universal Form of the Original Person.
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