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Vidura Approaches Maitreya
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going on, and no one can say definitely which of them is the beginning and which is the end. His eternal pastimes have no beginning or end, and one has to learn of them from the pure devotee only and not waste valuable time in so-called research work.
TEXT 34
देहन्यासं च तस्यैवं धीराणां धैर्यवर्धनम् । अन्येषां दुष्करतरं पशूनां विक्ल्वात्मनाम् ॥३४॥
deha-nyāsam ca tasyaivam dhīrāṇām dhairya-vardhanam anyeṣām duṣkarataram paśūnām viklavātmanām
deha-nyāsam—entering the body; ca—also; tasya—His; evam—also; dhīrāṇām—of great sages; dhairya—perseverance; vardhanam—increasing; anyeṣām—for others; duṣkarataram—very difficult to ascertain; paśūnām—of the beasts; viklava—disturbed; ātmanām—of such a mind.
TRANSLATION
The Lord's glorious acts and His acceptance of various transcendental forms for the performance of extraordinary pastimes in the mortal world are very difficult for anyone other than His devotees to understand, and for the beasts they are simply a mental disturbance.
PURPORT
The transcendental forms and pastimes of the Lord, as described in  Bhagavad-gītā , are difficult subject matters for those who are not devotees to understand. The Lord never reveals Himself to persons like the  jñānīs  and  yogīs . And there are others who, because of their envying the Lord from the bottom of their hearts, are classified amongst the beasts, and for such envious beasts the subject matter of the Lord's appearance and disappearance is simply a mental disturbance. As confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 7.15), the miscreants who are simply concerned with material enjoyment, who work very hard like beasts of burden, can hardly know the Personality of Godhead at any stage due to  āsurika-bhāva , or a spirit of revolt against the Supreme Lord.
The transcendental bodily expansions manifested by the Lord for His pastimes in the mortal world, and the appearance and disappearance of such transcendental expansions, are difficult subject matters, and those