Text 38] Krsna Is the Source of All Incarnations 179
speech. And yet there are some men, with poor fund of knowledge, who
desire to understand the Absolute Truth by imperfect mental speculation
and faulty description of His activities. To the layman His activities,
appearence and disappearance, His names, His forms, His paraphernalia,
His personalities and all things in relation with Him are mysterious acts.
There are two classes of materialists, namely the fruitive workers and the
empiric philosophers. The fruitive workers have practically no information
of the Absolute Truth, and the mental speculators, after being frustrated
in fruitive activities, turn their faces towards the Absolute Truth and try
to know Him by mental speculation. And for all these men, the Absolute
Truth is a mystery, as the jugglery of the magician is a mystery to children.
Being deceived by the jugglery of the Supreme Being, the nondevotees,
who may be very dexterous in fruitive work and mental speculation, are
always in ignorance. With such limited knowledge, they are unable to
penetrate into the mysterious region of transcendence. The mental specu-
lators are a little more progressive than the gross materialists or the fruitive
workers, but because they are also within the grip of illusion, they take it
for granted that anything which has form, a name and activities is but a
product of material energy. For them the Supreme Spirit is formless,
nameless and inactive. And because such mental speculators equalize the
transcendental name and form of the Lord with mundane names and form,
they are in fact in ignorance. With such a poor fund of knowledge, there
is no access to the real nature of the Supreme Being. As stated in Bhagavad-
gita, the Lord is always in a transcendental position, even when He is
within the material world. But ignorant men consider the Lord one of the
great personalities of the world, and thus they are misled by the illusory
energy.
TEXT 38
a % wa: wat Te
Gea TUTTI: |
ar =| ATA TMT
aad ATTRA Ril
sa veda dhatuh padavirh parasya
duranta-viryasya rathanga-paneh
yo’mayaya santatayanuurttya
bhajeta tat-pada-saroja-gandham
