What is the connection of vibhuti yoga with perceiving spiritual reality?

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so while discussing vibhuti yoga in the 10th chapter why do we talk about accessing spiritual reality if we look at the 10th chapter krishna has talked about the highest reality he has talked about how himself and how the pure devotees are absorbed in talking directly about him and krishna has also acknowledged param brahma param dhama that krishna is the highest reality so in a sense the bhagavad gita has already ended over there because krishna krishna has given the essential conclusion and arjuna has also accepted that essential conclusion now prabhupada also explains in the purport that narjuna that bhaveshu refers to in the material world in this man in this world how does the absolute truth how can people think of krishna through his manifestations in this world so the point is that the spiritual reality is the highest but spiritual reality is not accessible for us prabhupada writes in on the way to krishna that all knowledge comes from krishna but all knowledge doesn’t begin from krishna if krishna is the source of all knowledge our knowledge doesn’t begin from krishna we don’t suddenly one day start thinking about krishna we look at the world observe the world contemplate the world and then think where did this world come from does it have a source does it have a designer does it have a designing principle so by looking at this world we can think gradually beyond this world to the source of the world so our purpose as spiritual seekers is to pursue spiritual reality but we are living within the material world so we can direct our consciousness from material reality to spiritual reality we cannot just directly start thinking about spiritual reality and for that purpose there are these three ways there is the vibhuti yoga where whatever is attractive in this world we see it as a manifestation of krishna then there is the whole shakta tantra principle of the divine manifesting in this world through the deities and other manifestations so in both these cases in the first case of vibhuti it is more a more a connection that we make between the object and krishna so the list that is given in the 10th chapter is not a exhaustive list it is a indicative list so in today’s world we can say we may say that say if you want to say today’s context you may say in among cricketers i am sachin tendulkar or i am virat kohli or whoever so that this is a connection which we make through our consciousness that is vibhuti whereas when you talk about the deities it is not a connection that it is not simply a connection that we are making in our consciousness there is an intrinsic connection in the sense that the divine has manifested over there that is but that is also a manifestation in this world in matter so through matter our consciousness goes toward the perception of spiritual reality and in vedanta there is a there is a so in both these ways there is a connection of matter with spirit whereas in vedanta there is a there is a rejection of matter to pursue spirit so naiti naiti that is the moon the first in the second chapter of the bhagavata and that’s how these are all different ways in which ultimately the goal is to perceive spiritual reality but the ways to pursue spiritual reality are different in different situations