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Questions by the Sages
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and therefore remain fresh even after repeated readings. For example, anyone may read  Bhagavad-gītā  or the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  repeatedly throughout his whole life and yet find in them new light of information. Mundane news is static whereas transcendental news is dynamic, inasmuch as the spirit is dynamic and matter is static. Those who have developed a taste for understanding the transcendental subject matter are never tired of hearing such narrations. One is quickly satiated by mundane activities, but no one is satiated by transcendental or devotional activities.  Uttamaśloka  indicates that literature which is not meant for nescience. Mundane literature is in the mode of darkness or ignorance, whereas transcendental literature is quite different. Transcendental literature is above the mode of darkness, and its light becomes more luminous with progressive reading and realization of the transcendental subject matter. The so-called liberated persons are never satisfied by the repetition of the words  aham brahmāsmi . Such artificial realization of Brahman becomes hackneyed, and so to relish real pleasure they turn to the narrations of the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . Those who are not so fortunate turn to altruism and worldly philanthropy. This means the Māyāvāda philosophy is mundane, whereas the philosophy of  Bhagavad-gītā  and  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  is transcendental.
TEXT 20
कृतवान् किल कर्माणि सह रामेण केशवः । अतिमत्यानि भगवान् गूढः कपटमानुषः ॥२०॥
kṛtavān kila karmāṇi saha rāmeṇa keśavaḥ atimartyāni bhagavān gūḍhaḥ kapaṭa-mānuṣaḥ
kṛtavān—done by; kila—what and what; karmāṇi—acts; saha—along with; rāmeṇa—Balarāma; keśavaḥ—Śrī Kṛṣṇa; atimartyāni—superhuman; bhagavān—the Personality of Godhead; gūḍhaḥ—masked as; kapaṭa—apparently; mānuṣaḥ—human being.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, and Balarāma played like human beings, and so masked They performed many superhuman acts.