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elevated to the Vaikuṇṭha planets, directly in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is prone to fall down, either from the impersonal Brahman realization or from an ecstatic trance of meditation. Another word in this verse,  bhagavad-bānaḥ , is very significant.  Bānaḥ  means arrow. The  bhakti-yoga  system is just like an arrow aiming up to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The  bhakti-yoga  system never urges one towards the impersonal Brahman effulgence or to the point of Paramātmā realization. This  bāṇaḥ , or arrow, is so sharp and swift that it goes directly to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, penetrating the regions of impersonal Brahman and localized Paramātmā.
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तदेतन्मे विजानीहि यथाहं मन्दधीर्हरे । 
    सुखं बुद्ध्येय दुर्ग्रेधं योषा भवदनुग्रहात् ॥३०॥
tad etan me vijānthi 
    yathāham manda-dhīr hare 
    sukham buddhyeya durbodham 
    yoṣā bhavad-anugrahāt
tat etat—  that same;  me—  to me;  vijānthi—  please explain;  yathā—  so that;  aham—  I;  manda—  slow;  dhīḥ—  whose intelligence;  hare—  O my Lord;  sukham—  easily;  buddhyeya—  may understand;  durbodham—  very difficult to understand;  yoṣā—  a woman;  bhavat-anugrahāt—  by Your grace.
TRANSLATION
My dear son, Kapila, after all, I am a woman. It is very difficult for me to understand the Absolute Truth because my intelligence is not very great. But if You will kindly explain it to me, even though I am not very intelligent, I can understand it and thereby feel transcendental happiness.
PURPORT
Knowledge of the Absolute Truth is not very easily understood by ordinary, less intelligent men; but if the spiritual master is kind enough to the disciple, however unintelligent he may be, then by the divine grace of the spiritual master everything is revealed. Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura therefore says,  yasya prasādād , by the mercy of the spiritual master,