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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 21 ]
them in the name of  yoga  and render their lives useless and doomed. In  Bhagavad-gītā , therefore, it is clearly stated, in the Sixteenth Chapter, seventeenth verse, that rascals of self-made authority, being puffed up by illegally collected money, perform  yoga  without following the authoritative books. They are very proud of the money they have plundered from innocent persons who wanted to be cheated.
TEXT 8
तावत्प्रसन्नो भगवान् पुष्कराक्षः कृते युगे । दर्शयामास तं क्षत्रः शाब्दं ब्रह्म दधद्रपुः ॥ ८ ॥
tāvat prasanno bhagavān puṣkarākṣaḥ kṛte yuge darśayāmāsa tam kṣattaḥ śābdam brahma dadhad vapuḥ
tāvat —then;  prasannaḥ —being pleased;  bhagavān —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  puṣkara-akṣaḥ —lotus-eyed;  kṛte yuge —in the Satya-yuga;  darśayām āsa —showed;  tam —to that Kardama Muni;  kṣattaḥ —O Vidura;  śābdam —which is to be understood only through the  Vedas ;  brahma —the Absolute Truth;  dadhat —exhibiting;  vapuḥ —His transcendental body.
TRANSLATION
Then, in the Satya-yuga, the lotus-eyed Supreme Personality of Godhead, being pleased, showed Himself to that Kardama Muni and displayed His transcendental form, which can be understood only through the  Vedas .
PURPORT
Here two points are very significant. The first is that Kardama Muni attained success by  yoga  practice in the beginning of Satya-yuga, when people used to live for 100,000 years. Kardama Muni attained success, and the Lord, being pleased with him, showed him His form, which is not imaginary. Sometimes the impersonalists recommend that one can arbitrarily concentrate one's mind on some form he imagines or which pleases him. But here it is very clearly said that the form which the Lord showed to Kardama Muni by His divine grace is described in the  Vedic literature .  Śābdam brahma : The forms of the Lord are clearly indicated in the  Vedic literature . Kardama Muni did not discover any imaginary form of God, as