956 . Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 18
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aham hi prsto’ryamano bhavadbhir
acaksa atmavagamo’tra yavan
nabhah patanty atmasamam patattrinas
tatha samam visnu-gatim vipascitah
aham—my humble self; hi—certainly; prstah—asked by you; aryamanah—
as powerful as the sun; bhavadbhih—by you; adcakse—may describe; atma-
avagamah—as far as my knowledge is concerned; atra—herein; yavan—so
far; nabhah—sky ; patanti—fly on; atma-samam—as far as it can; patattrinah —
the birds; tatha—thus; samam—similarly; visnu-gatim—knowledge of Visnu;
vipascitah—even though learned.
TRANSLATION
O rsis, who are as powerfully pure as the sun, I shall try to describe to
you the transcendental pastimes of Visnu as far as my knowledge is
concemed. As the birds fly in the sky as far as their capacity allows, so do
the leamed devotees describe the Lord as far as their realization allows.
PURPORT
The Supreme Absolute Truth is unlimited. No living being can know
about the unlimited by his limited capacity. The Lord is impersonal,
personal and localized. By His impersonal feature He is all-pervading
Brahman, by His localized feature He is present in everyone’s heart as the
Supreme Soul, and by His ultimate personal feature He is the object of
transcendental loving service by His fortunate associates the pure devotees.
The pastimes of the Lord in different features can only be estimated partly
by the great learned devotees. So Srila Sita Gosvami has rightly taken this
position in describing the pastimes of the Lord as far as he has realized.
Factually only the Lord Himself can describe Himself, and His learned
devotee also can describe Him as far as the Lord gives him the power
of description.
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