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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 7]
you because their compilers wrote the various scriptures after receiving your glance.
TEXT 31
न ते गिरित्राखिललोकपाल- विरिञ्चवैकुण्ठसुरेन्द्रगम्यम् । ज्योतिः परं यत्र रजस्तमश्च सत्त्वं न यद् ब्रह्म निरस्तमेदम् ॥३१॥
na te giri-trākhila-loka-pāla- viriñca-vaikuṇṭha-surendra-gamyam jyotiḥ paraṁ yatra rajas tamaś ca sattvaṁ na yad brahma nirasta-bhedam
na —not;  te —of Your Lordship;  giri-tra —O King of the mountains;  akhila-loka-pāla —all the directors of departments of material activities;  viriñca —Lord Brahmā;  vaikuṇṭha —Lord Viṣṇu;  sura-indra —the King of heaven;  gamyam —they can understand;  jyotiḥ —effulgence;  paraṁ —transcendental;  yatra —wherein;  rajaḥ —the mode of passion;  tamaḥ ca —and the mode of ignorance;  sattvaṁ —the mode of goodness;  na —not;  yat brahma —which is impersonal Brahman;  nirasta-bhedam —without distinction between demigods and human beings.
TRANSLATION
O Lord Giriśa, since the impersonal Brahman effulgence is transcendental to the material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance, the various directors of this material world certainly cannot appreciate it or even know where it is. It is not understandable even to Lord Brahmā, Lord Viṣṇu or the King of heaven, Mahendra.
PURPORT
The  brahmajyoti  is actually the effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated in  Brahma-saṁhitā  (5.40):