Text 43]
Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
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mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā bodhayantaḥ parasparam kathayantaś ca mām nityam tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca  (Bg. 10.9)
The Supreme Lord is unlimited, and His energies are also unlimited. No one can know them completely. Brahmājī, being the greatest living entity within this universe and being directly instructed by the Lord, must know more than anyone within this universe, although such knowledge may not be complete, and thus it is the duty of everyone to ask about the unlimited Lord from the spiritual master in the discipline succession of Brahmā, which descends from Nārada to Vyāsa, from Vyāsa to Śukadeva and so on.
TEXT 43
तुष्टं निशाम्य पितरं लोकानां प्रपितामहम् ।   देवर्षिः परिप्रच्छ भवान् यन्मानुपृच्छति ॥४३॥
tuṣṭam niśāmya pitaram lokānām prapitāmaham devarṣiḥ pariparaccha bhavān yan mānuprechati
tuṣṭam—satisfied; niśāmya—after seeing; pitaram—the father; lokānām—of the whole universe; prapitāmaham—the great-grandfather; devarṣiḥ—the great sage Nārada; pariparaccha—inquired; bhavān—yourself; yat—as it is; mā—from me; anuprechati—inquiring.
TRANSLATION
The great sage Nārada also inquired in detail from his father Brahmā, the great-grandfather of all the universe, after seeing him well satisfied.
PURPORT
The process of understanding spiritual or transcendental knowledge from the realized person is not exactly like asking an ordinary question from the schoolmaster. The schoolmasters in the modern days are paid