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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 10]
is herein accepted as the direct representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he was imparting knowledge on behalf of the Supreme Lord. Therefore Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa concluded that it was appropriate to ask him about  ātma-tattva , the spiritual science.  Tadvijñānārtham sa gurum evābhigacchet . This Vedic injunction is also confirmed herein. If anyone is at all interested in knowing the spiritual science ( brahma-jijñāsā ), he must approach a  guru  like Jaḍa Bharata.
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स वै भवांल्लोकनिरीक्षणार्थ- मन्यक्तलिङ्गो विचरत्यपिस्रित् । योगेश्वराणां गतिमन्थबुद्धिः कथं विचक्षीत गृहानुबन्धः ॥२०॥
sa vai bhavāl loka-nirīkṣaṇārtham avyakta-liṅgo vicaraty api svit yogeśvarāṇām gatim andha-buddhiḥ katham vicakṣīta gṛhānubandhaḥ
saḥ —that Supreme Personality of Godhead or His incarnation Kapiladeva;  vai —indeed;  bhavān —your good self;  loka-nirīkṣaṇa-artham —just to study the characteristics of the people of this world;  avyakta-liṅgaḥ —without manifesting your real identity;  vicarati —are traveling in this world;  api svit —whether;  yoga-īśvarāṇām —of all the advanced  yogīs ;  gatim —the characteristics or actual behavior;  andha-buddhiḥ —who are illusioned and have become blind to spiritual knowledge;  katham —how;  vicakṣīta —may know;  gṛha-anubandhaḥ —I who am bound by attachment to family life, or worldly life.
TRANSLATION
Is it not a fact that your good self is the direct representative of Kapiladeva, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? To examine people and see who is actually a human being and who is not, you have presented yourself to be a deaf and dumb person. Are you not moving this way upon the surface of the