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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 10]
forgetful living being is always busy with false forms and false names. Modern nationalism is the culmination of such false names and false forms. Men are mad after false name and form. The form of body obtained under certain conditions is taken up as factual, and the name also taken bewilders the conditioned soul into misusing the energy in the name of so many “ isms .” The scriptures, however, supply the clue of understanding the real position, but men are reluctant to take lessons from the scriptures created by the Lord for different places and times. For example, the  Bhagavad-gītā  is the guiding principle for every human being, but by the spell of material energy they do not take care to carry out the programs of life in terms of the  Bhagavad-gītā .  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  is the post-graduate study of knowledge for one who has thoroughly understood the principles of the  Bhagavad-gītā . Unfortunately they have no taste for them, and therefore they are under the clutches of  māyā  for repetition of birth and death.
TEXT 23
स वा अयं यत्पदमत्र स्वरयो 
  जितेन्द्रिया निर्जितमातरिश्वनः । 
  पश्यन्ति भक्त्युत्कलितामलात्मना 
  नन्वेष सत्त्वं परिमार्ष्टुमर्हति ॥२३॥
sa vā ayam yat padam atra sūrayo 
  jitendriyā nirjita-mātariśvanaḥ 
  paśyanti bhaktyut-kalitāmalātmanā 
  nanveṣa sattvam parimārṣṭum arhati
saḥ —He;  vai —by providence;  ayam —this;  yat —that which;  padam atra —here is the same Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa;  sūrayaḥ —great devotees;  jita-indriyā —one who has overcome the influence of the senses;  nirjita —thoroughly controlled;  mātariśvanaḥ —life;  paśyanti —can see;  bhakti —by dint of devotional service;  utkalita —developed;  amala-ātmanā —those whose minds are thoroughly cleansed;  nanu eṣaḥ —certainly by this only;  sattvam —existence;  parimārṣṭum —for purifying the mind completely;  arhati —deserve.
TRANSLATION
Here is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead whose transcendental form is experienced by the great devotees who are completely