Text 19]
Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa Meets Jaḍa Bharata
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secure shelter;  tat —that which;  sākṣāt harim —directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  jñāna-kalā-avatīrṇam —who has descended as the incarnation of complete knowledge in His plenary portion known as Kapiladeva.
TRANSLATION
I consider your good self the most exalted master of mystic power. You know the spiritual science perfectly well. You are the most exalted of all learned sages, and you have descended for the benefit of all human society. You have come to give spiritual knowledge, and you are a direct representative of Kapiladeva, the incarnation of God and the plenary portion of knowledge. I am therefore asking you, O spiritual master, what is the most secure shelter in this world?
PURPORT
As Kṛṣṇa confirms in  Bhagavad-gītā :
yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatenāntarātmanā śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
“Of all  yogīs , he who abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in  yoga  and is the highest of all.” (Bg. 6.47)
Jaḍa Bharata was a perfect  yogī . He was formerly the emperor Bharata Mahārāja, and he was now the most exalted personality among learned sages and the master of all mystic powers. Although Jaḍa Bharata was an ordinary living entity, he had inherited all the knowledge given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kapiladeva. He could therefore be taken directly as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As confirmed by Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura in his stanzas to the spiritual master:  sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstraiḥ . An exalted personality like Jaḍa Bharata is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he fully represents the Lord by giving knowledge to others. Jaḍa Bharata