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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 6]
TEXT 34
न भारती मेऽङ्ग मृषोपलक्ष्यते 
  न वै क्वचिन्मे मनसो मृषा गतिः । 
  न मे हृषीकाणि पतन्त्यसत्पथे 
  यन्मे हृदौत्कण्ठ्यवता धृतो हरिः ॥३४॥
na bhāratī me'ṅga mṛṣopalakṣyate 
  na vai kvacin me manaso mṛṣā gatiḥ 
  na me hṛṣīkāṇi patanty asat-pathe 
  yan me hṛdautkaṇṭhyavatā dhṛto hariḥ
na—never; bhāratī—statements; me—mine; aṅga—O Nārada; mṛṣā—untruth; upalakṣyate—prove to be; na—never; vai—certainly; kvacit—at any time; me—mine; manasaḥ—of the mind; mṛṣā—untruth; gatiḥ—progress; na—nor; me—mine; hṛṣīkāṇi—senses; patanti—degrades; asat-pathe—in the temporary matter; yat—because; me—mine; hṛdā—heart; autkaṇṭhyavatā—by great earnestness; dhṛtaḥ—caught hold of; hariḥ—the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
O Nārada, because I have caught hold of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, with great zeal, whatever I say has never proved to have been false. Nor is the progress of my mind ever deterred. Nor are my senses ever degraded by temporary attachment to matter.
PURPORT
Lord Brahmā is the original speaker of Vedic wisdom to Nārada, and Nārada is the distributor of transcendental knowledge all over the world through his various disciples, like Vyāsadeva and others. The followers of Vedic wisdom accept the statements of Brahmājī as gospel truth, and transcendental knowledge is thus being distributed all over the world by the process of disciplic succession from time immemorial, since the beginning of the creation. Lord Brahmā is the perfect liberated living being within the material world, and any sincere student of transcendental knowledge must accept the words and statements of Brahmājī as infallible. The Vedic knowledge is infallible because it comes down directly from the