530 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 10

TEXT 19

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asriyantasisah satyas
tatra tatra dvijeritah
nanuruipanurupas ca
nirgunasya gunatmanah

«asriyanta—being heard; dsisah—benediction; satyah—all truths; tatra—
here; tatra—there; dvija-iritah—sounded by learned brahmanas; na—not;
anurupa—befitting; anurupah—fitting; ca—also; nirgunasya—of the Abso-
lute; guna-atmanah—plaving the role of a human being.

TRANSLATION

It was being heard here and there that the benedictions being paid to
Krsna were neither befitting nor unbefitting because they were all for the
Absolute who was now playing the part of a human being.

PURPORT

At places there were sounds of Vedic benediction aiming at the Person-
ality of Godhead Sri Krsna. The benedictions were fitting in the sense that
the Lord was playing the part of a human being as if a cousin of Maharaja
Yudhisthira, but they were unfitting also because the Lord is absolute and
has nothing to do with any kind of material relativities. He is nirguna, or
there are no material qualities in Him, but He is full of transcendental
qualities. In the transcendental world there is nothing contradictory,
whereas in the relative world everything has its opposite. In the relative
world white is the opposite conception of black, but in the transcendental
world there is no distinction between whiie and black. Therefore the
sounds of benedictions uttered by the learned brahmanas here and there
appear to be contradictory in relation with the Absolute Person, but when
they are applied to the Absolute Person they lose all contradiction and
become transcendental. One example may clear this idea. Lord Sri Krsna
is sometimes described as a thief. He is very famous amongst His pure
devotees as the Makhan-Cora. He used to steal butter from the houses of
neighbors at Vrndavana in His early age. Since then He is famous as a
