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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 6]
ship of transcendental loving service will always be infallible in words and action. The reason is that the Supreme Lord is Absolute Truth, and anything earnestly dovetailed with the Absolute Truth attains the same transcendental quality. On the other hand, any amount of mental speculation on the strength of material science and knowledge without any bona fide touch with the Absolute Truth is sure to be a mundane untruth and failure, simply due to not being in touch with the Absolute Truth. Such godless, unfaithful words and actions, however materially enriched, are never to be trusted. That is the purport of this important verse. A grain of devotion is more valuable than tons of faithlessness.
TEXT 35
सोऽहं समाम्नायमयस्तपोमयः प्रजापतीनामभिवन्दितः पतिः । आस्थाय योगं निपुणं समाहित- स्तं नाध्यगच्छं यत आत्मसम्भवः ॥३५॥
so'ham samāmnāyamayas tapomayaḥ prajā-patīnām abhivanditaḥ patiḥ āsthāya yogam nipuṇam samāhitas tam nādhyagaccham yata ātma-sambhavaḥ
saḥ aham—myself (the great Brahmā); samāmnāyamayaḥ—in the chain of disciplic succession of Vedic wisdom; tapomayaḥ—successfully undergone all austerities; prajā-patīnām—of all the forefathers of living entities; abhivanditaḥ—worshipable; patiḥ—master; āsthāya—successfully practiced; yogam—mystic powers; nipuṇam—very expert; samāhitaḥ—self-realized; tam—the Supreme Lord; na—did not; adhyagaccham—properly understood; yataḥ—from whom; ātma—self; sambhavaḥ—generated.
TRANSLATION
Although I am known as the great Brahmā, perfect in the disciplic succession of Vedic wisdom, and although I have undergone all austerities and am an expert in mystic powers and self-realization, and although I am