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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 9]
नां विवादानवसर उपरतसमस्तमायामये केवल एवात्मपायामन्तर्घाय को न्वर्थो दुर्घट इव भवति स्वरूपद्वयाभावात् ॥ ३६ ॥
na hi virodha ubhayam bhagavaty aparimita-guṇa-gaṇa īśvare 'navagāhya-māhātmye 'rvācīna-vikalpa-vitarka-vicāra-pramāṇābhāsa- kutarka-śāstra-kalilāntaḥkaraṇāśraya-duravagraha-vādinām vivādānavasara uparata-samasta-māyāmaye kevala evātma-māyām antardhāya ko nv artho durghaṭa iva bhavati svarūpa-dvayābhāvāt.
na—not; hi—certainly; virodhaḥ—contradiction; ubhayam—both; bhagavati—in the Supreme Personality of Godhead; aparimita—un- limited; guṇa-gaṇe—whose transcendental attributes; īśvare—in the supreme controller; anavagāhya—possessing; māhātmye—unfathoma- ble ability and glories; arvācīna—recent; vikalpa—full of equivocal calculations; vitarka—opposing arguments; vicāra—judgments; pra- māṇa-ābhāsa—imperfect evidence; kutarka—useless arguments; śāstra—by unauthorized scriptures; kalila—agitated; antaḥkaraṇa— minds; āśraya—whose shelter; duravagraha—with wicked obstinacies; vādinām—of theorists; vivāda—of the controversies; anavasare—not within the range; uparata—withdrawn; samasta—from whom all; māyā-maye—illusory energy; kevale—without a second; eva—indeed; ātma-māyām—the illusory energy, which can do and undo the incon- ceivable; antardhāya—placing between; kaḥ—what; nu—indeed; arthaḥ—meaning; durghaṭaḥ—impossible; iva—as it were; bhavati— is; sva-rūpa—natures; dvaya—of two; abhāvāt—due to the absence.
TRANSLATION
O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all contradictions can be reconciled in You. O Lord, since You are the Supreme Person, the reservoir of unlimited spiritual qualities, the supreme controller, Your unlimited glories are inconceivable to the conditioned souls. Many modern theologians argue about right and wrong without knowing what is actually right. Their arguments are always false and their judgments inconclusive because they have no authorized evidence with which to gain knowledge of You. Because their minds are agitated by scriptures containing false conclusions, they