60 Sri Isopanigad
MANTRA TWELVE

aq oa: onfaaa | asarqfraqad |
TH WT TAM TF AMAA Il 22 Il

andham tamah pravisanti
ye’sambhitim upasate
tato bhitya iva te tamo
ya u sambhityam ratah.

andham—ignorance; tamah—darkness; pravisanti-do enter into; ye—
those; asambhiitim—demigods; updsate—do worship; tatah—more than that;
bhityah—again; iva—like that; te—who; tamah—darkness; ye—those; u—also;
sambhiittyam—in the Absolute; ratah—engaged.

TRANSLATION

Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into
the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the wor-
shipers of the Absolute.

PURPORT

The Sanskrit word asambhiiti means those who have no
independent existence. Sambhiti is the Absolute Personality of
Godhead, Who is absolutely independent of everything. In the
Bhagavad-gita, the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna,
positively describes Himself in the following words: “I am the
Supreme Cause of the powers delegated to the demigods, the
great sages and the mystics. And because these are endowed with
limited powers, it is very difficult for them to know how I
appear Myself, by My own internal potency, in the form of
aman.”

All philosophers and great rsis, or mystics, try to distinguish
the Absolute from the relative by their tiny brain power.
However, this can only help them to reach the point of negating
