Text 6] Narada’s Instructions on Srimad-Bhagavatam 227

to your being the offspring of one [Brahma] who is self-born [without
mundane father and mother].

PURPORT

In the material world everyone is engrossed with the idea of identifying
the hody or the mind with the self. As such, all knowledge disseminated in
the material world is related either with the body or with the mind, and
that is the root cause of all despondencies. This is not always detected,
even though one may be the greatest erudite scholar in materialistic
knowledge. It is good, therefore, to approach a personality like Narada to
solve the root cause of all despondencies. Why Narada should be ap-
proached is explained below.

TEXT 6

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sa vai bhavan veda samasta-guhyam
upasito yat purusah puranah
paravareso manasaiva visvam
syjaty avaty atti gunair asangah

sah—thus; vai—certainly; bhavan—yourself; veda—know; samasta—all-
inclusive; guh yam—confidential; upasitah—devotee of; yat—because; purusah
—the Personality of Godhead: puranah—the oldest; paravaresah—the con-
troller of the material and spiritual worlds; manasa—mind; eva—only;
visvam—the universe; srjati—creates; avati atti—annihilates; gunaih—by the
qualitative matter; asangah—unattached.

TRANSLATION

My lord! Everything that is mysterious is known to you because you
worship the creator and destroyer of the material world and the maintainer
of the spiritual world, the original Personality of Godhead, who is tran-
scendental to the three modes of material nature.
