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21–duravagamätma-tattva-nigamäya tavätta-tanoç
carita-mahämåtäbdhi-parivarta-pariçramaëäù
na parilañanti kecid apavargam apéçvara te
caraëa-saroja-haàsa-kula-saìga-visåñöa-gåhäù

My Lord, some fortunate souls have gotten relief from the fatigue of material
life by diving into the vast nectar ocean of Your pastimes, which You enact
when You manifest Your personal forms to propagate the unfathomable science
of the self. These rare souls, indifferent even to liberation, renounce the
happiness of home and family because of their association with devotees who
are like flocks of swans enjoying at the lotus of Your feet.

22–tvad-anupathaà kuläyam idam ätma-suhåt-priya-vac
carati tathonmukhe tvayi hite priya ätmani ca
na bata ramanty aho asad-upäsanayätma-hano
yad-anuçayä bhramanty uru-bhaye ku-çaréra-bhåtaù

When this human body is used for Your devotional service, it acts as one’s
self, friend and beloved. But unfortunately, although You always show mercy to
the conditioned souls and affectionately help them in every way, and although
You are their true Self, people in general fail to delight in You. Instead they
commit spiritual suicide by worshiping illusion. Alas, because they persistently
hope for success in their devotion to the unreal, they continue to wander about
this greatly fearful world, assuming various degraded bodies.

23–nibhåta-marun-mano-’kña-dåòha-yoga-yujo hådi yan
munaya upäsate tad arayo ‘pi yayuù smaraëät
striya uragendra-bhoga-bhuja-daëòa-viñakta-dhiyo
vayam api te samäù sama-dåço ‘ìghri-saroja-sudhäù

Simply by constantly thinking of Him, the enemies of the Lord attained the
same Supreme Truth whom sages fixed in yoga worship by controlling their
breath, mind and senses. Similarly, we çrutis, who generally see You as
all-pervading, will achieve the same nectar from Your lotus feet that Your
consorts are able to relish because of their loving attraction to Your mighty,
serpentine arms, for You look upon us and Your consorts in the same way.

24–ka iha nu veda batävara-janma-layo ‘gra-saraà
yata udagäd åñir yam anu deva-gaëä ubhaye
tarhi na san na cäsad ubhayaà na ca käla-javaù
kim api na tatra çästram avakåñya çayéta yadä

Everyone in this world has recently been born and will soon die. So how can
anyone here know Him who existed prior to everything else and who gave rise
to the first learned sage, Brahmä, and all subsequent demigods, both lesser and
greater? When He lies down and withdraws everything within Himself, nothing
else remains—no gross or subtle matter or bodies composed of these, no force of
time or revealed scripture.

25–janim asataù sato måtim utätmani ye ca bhidäà
vipaëam åtaà smaranty upadiçanti ta ärupitaiù
tri-guëa-mayaù pumän iti bhidä yad abodha-kåtä
tvayi na tataù paratra sa bhaved avabodha-rase

Supposed authorities who declare that matter is the origin of existence, that
the permanent qualities of the soul can be destroyed, that the self is
compounded of separate aspects of spirit and matter, or that material
transactions constitute reality—all such authorities base their teachings on
mistaken ideas that hide the truth. The dualistic conception that the living
entity is produced from the three modes of nature is simply a product of
ignorance. Such a conception has no real basis in You, for You are
transcendental to all illusion and always enjoy perfect, total awareness.

26–sad iva manas tri-våt tvayi vibhäty asad ä-manujät
sad abhimåçanty açeñam idam ätmatayätma-vidaù
na hi vikåtià tyajanti kanakasya tad-ätmatayä
sva-kåtam anupraviñöam idam ätmatayävasitam

The three modes of material nature comprise everything in this world—from
the simplest phenomena to the complex human body. Although these
phenomena appear real, they are only a false reflection of the spiritual reality,
being a superimposition of the mind upon You. Still, those who know the
Supreme Self consider the entire material creation to be real inasmuch as it is
nondifferent from the Self. Just as things made of gold are indeed not to be
rejected, since their substance is actual gold, so this world is undoubtedly
nondifferent from the Lord who created it and then entered within it.

27–tava pari ye caranty akhila-sattva-niketatayä
ta uta padäkramanty avigaëayya çiro niråteù
parivayase paçün iva girä vibudhän api täàs
tvayi kåta-sauhådäù khalu punanti na ye vimukhäù

The devotees who worship You as the shelter of all beings disregard Death
and place their feet on his head. But with the words of the Vedas You bind the
nondevotees like animals, though they be vastly learned scholars. It is Your
affectionate devotees who can purify themselves and others, not those who are
inimical to You.

28–tvam akaraëaù sva-räò akhila-käraka-çakti-dharas
tava balim udvahanti samadanty ajayänimiñäù
varña-bhujo ‘khila-kñiti-pater iva viçva-såjo
vidadhati yatra ye tv adhikåtä bhavataç cakitäù

Though You have no material senses, You are the self-effulgent sustainer of
everyone’s sensory powers. The demigods and material nature herself offer You
tribute, while also enjoying the tribute offered them by their worshipers, just as
subordinate rulers of various districts in a kingdom offer tribute to their lord,
the ultimate proprietor of the land, while also enjoying the tribute paid them by
their own subjects. In this way the universal creators faithfully execute their
assigned services out of fear of You.

29–sthira-cara-jätayaù syur ajayottha-nimitta-yujo
vihara udékñayä yadi parasya vimukta tataù
na hi paramasya kaçcid aparo na paraç ca bhaved
viyata iväpadasya tava çünya-tuläà dadhataù

O eternally liberated, transcendental Lord, Your material energy causes the
various moving and nonmoving species of life to appear by activating their
material desires, but only when and if You sport with her by briefly glancing at
her. You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, see no one as an intimate friend
and no one as a stranger, just as the ethereal sky has no connection with
perceptible qualities. In this sense You resemble a void.

30–aparimitä dhruväs tanu-bhåto yadi sarva-gatäs
tarhi na çäsyateti niyamo dhruva netarathä
ajani ca yan-mayaà tad avimucya niyantå bhavet
samam anujänatäà yad amataà mata-duñöatayä

If the countless living entities were all-pervading and possessed forms that
never changed, You could not possibly be their absolute ruler, O immutable one.
But since they are Your localized expansions and their forms are subject to
change, You do control them. Indeed, that which supplies the ingredients for
the generation of something is necessarily its controller because a product never
exists apart from its ingredient cause. It is simply illusion for someone to think
that he knows the Supreme Lord, who is equally present in each of His
expansions, since whatever knowledge one gains by material means must be
imperfect.

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