Text 178] Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord 85
for him. Conceptions of good and bad are all imaginations or mental speculations.
When one forgets that he is an eternal servant of Krsna, he wants to enjoy the
material world through different plans. At that time he distinguishes between ma-
terial plans that are good and those that are bad. Actually, however, they are all
false.
TEXT 177
faotFaaaaica aracd sife efera
ofa cba tates b tPewt: AMMA W599 I
vidya-vinaya-sampanne
brahmane gavi hastini
suni Caiva svapake ca
panditah sama-darsinah
SYNONYMS
vidya —knowledge; vinaya—gentleness; | sampanne—endowed _ with;
braéhmane—unto a brahmana; gavi—unto a cow; hastini—unto an elephant;
suni—unto a dog; ca—and; eva—also; sva-pake—unto a dog-eater; ca—also;
panditah —those who are actually learned in spiritual understanding; sama-dar-
sinah —equipoised.
TRANSLATION
“’‘The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a
learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater.’
PURPORT
This is a quotation from Bhagavad-gita (5.18).
TEXT 178
wiafewiagarn e781 fafeces fara |
TS SYS ca ANcTsteAs wb vav 4
jfana-vijhana-trptatma
kttastho vijitendriyah
yukta ity ucyate yogi
sama-lostrasma-kaficanah
SYNONYMS
jfiana—by acquired knowledge; vijfidna—realized knowledge; trpta—satisfied;
atma—living entity; ktita-sthah—fixed in his constitutional position; vijita—con-
