English Commentary Birth, death, old age and diseases affect this material body, but not the spiritual body. There is no birth, death, old age and disease for the spiritual body, so one who attains a spiritual body, becomes one of the associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engages in eternal devotional service is really liberated. Ahaс╣Б brahm─Бsmi: I am spirit. It is said that one should understand that he is Brahman, spirit soul. This Brahman conception of life is also in devotional service, as described in this verse. The pure devotees are transcendentally situated on the Brahman platform, and they know everything about transcendental activities. Four kinds of impure devotees who engage themselves in the transcendental service of the Lord achieve their respective goals, and by the grace of the Supreme Lord, when they are fully Kс╣Ыс╣гс╣Зa conscious, they actually enjoy spiritual association with the Supreme Lord. But those who are worshipers of demigods never reach the Supreme Lord in His supreme planet. Even the less intelligent Brahman-realized persons cannot reach the supreme planet of Kс╣Ыс╣гс╣Зa known as Goloka Vс╣Ыnd─Бvana. Only persons who perform activities in Kс╣Ыс╣гс╣Зa consciousness ( m─Бm ─Б┼Ыritya ) are actually entitled to be called Brahman, because they are actually endeavoring to reach the Kс╣Ыс╣гс╣Зa planet. Such persons have no misgivings about Kс╣Ыс╣гс╣Зa, and thus they are factually Brahman. Those who are engaged in worshiping the form or arc─Б of the Lord, or who are engaged in meditation on the Lord simply for liberation from material bondage, also know, by the grace of the Lord, the purports of Brahman, adhibh┼лta, etc., as explained by the Lord in the next chapter.