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| Canto 4: Creation of the Fourth Order | Chapter 22: Prithu Mahārāja's Meeting with the Four Kumāras |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.9
naiva lakshayate loko
SYNONYMS
na — not; eva — thus; lakshayate — can see; lokah — people; lokān — all planets; paryatatah — traveling; api — although; yān — whom; yathā — as much as; sarva-driśam — the Supersoul; sarve — in all; ātmānam — within everyone; ye — those; asya — of the cosmic manifestation; hetavah — causes.
TRANSLATION
Prithu Mahārāja continued: Although you are traveling in all planetary systems, people cannot know you, just as they cannot know the Supersoul, although He is within everyone's heart as the witness of everything. Even Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva cannot understand the Supersoul.
PURPORT
In the beginning of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said: muhyanti yat sūrayah. Great demigods like Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, Indra and Candra are sometimes bewildered trying to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It so happened that when Krishna was present on this planet, Lord Brahmā and King Indra also mistook Him. And what to speak of great yogīs or jñānīs who conclude that the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is impersonal? In the same way, great personalities and Vaishnavas like the four Kumāras are also invisible to ordinary persons, although they are traveling all over the universe in different planetary systems. When Sanātana Gosvāmī went to see Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he could not be recognized by Candraśekhara Ācārya. The conclusion is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated in everyone's heart, and His pure devotees, the Vaishnavas, are also traveling all over the world, but those who are under the modes of material nature cannot understand the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of this cosmic manifestation, or the Vaishnavas. It is said, therefore, that one cannot see the Supreme Personality of Godhead or a Vaishnava with these material eyes. One has to purify his senses and engage in the service of the Lord. Then gradually one can realize who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and who is a Vaishnava.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness