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universe, he would still be unable to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As confirmed in  Brahma-saṅhitā  (5.34):
panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-saṅpragamyo vāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānām so 'py asti yat-prapada-sīmny avicintya-tattve govindam ādi-puruṣaṅ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
The conditioned souls may try to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead for many billions of years through their mental speculative processes, traveling at the speed of the mind or the wind, but still the Absolute Truth will remain inconceivable to them because a materialistic person cannot measure the length and breadth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's unlimited existence. If the Absolute Truth is beyond measurement, one may ask, how can one realize Him? The answer is given here by the word  svayambhuve : one may understand Him or not, but nevertheless He is existing in His own spiritual potency.
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न यस्य सख्यं पुरुषोऽत्रैति सख्युः
सखा वसन् संवसतः पुरेऽस्मिन् ।
गुणो यथा गुणिनो व्यक्तदृष्टे-
स्तस्मै महेशाय नमस्करोमि ॥२४॥
na yasya sakhyaṁ puruṣo 'vaiti sakhyuḥ
sakhā vasan saṅvasataḥ pure 'smin
guṇo yathā guṇino vyakta-drṣṭes
tasmai maheśāya namaskaromi
na —not;  yasya —whose;  sakhyaṁ —fraternity;  puruṣaḥ —the living entity;  avaiti —knows;  sakhyuḥ —of the supreme friend;  sakhā —the friend;  vasan —living;  saṅvasataḥ —of the one living with;  pure —in the body;  asmin —this;  guṇaḥ —the object of sense perception;  yathā —just like;  guṇinaḥ —of its respective sense organ;  vyakta-drṣṭeḥ —who