Text 10] The Process of Creation 185

TEXT 10

fitafeiaataea ata Wa TT |
Tes AAT Poy: Tey ATTRA |oll

vicikitsitam etan me
bravitu bhagavan yatha
Sabde brahmani nisnatah
parasmims ca bhavan khalu

vicikitsitam—doubtful inquiry; etat—this; me—of me; bravitu—just clear
up; bhagavan—powerful like the Lord; yatha—as much as; sabde—sound
transcendental; brahmani—Vedic literature; nisnatah— fully realized; par-
asmin—in transcendence; ca—also; bhavan—your good self; khalu—as a
matter of fact.

TRANSLATION

Kindly clear up all these doubtful inquiries, because you are not only
vastly learned in the Vedic literatures and self-realized in transcendence,
but you are also a great devotee of the Lord, and therefore you are as good
as the Personality of Godhead.

PURPORT

In the Brahma-samhita it is said that the Supreme Absolute Truth,
Govinda, the Personality of Godhead, although one without a second, is
infallibly expanded by innumerable forms nondifferent from one another,
and although He is the original person, He is still ever young with perma-
nent youthful energy. He is very difficult to be known simply by learning
the transcendental science of the Vedas, but He is very easily realized by
His pure devotees.

The expansion of different forms of the Lord, as from Krsna to Baladeva
to Sankarsana, from Sankarsana to Vasudeva, from Vasudeva to Aniruddha,
from Aniruddha to Pradyumna and then again to second Sankarsana and
from Him to the Narayana-Purusavataras, and innumerable other forms,
which are compared to the constant flowing of the uncountable waves of
a river, are all one and the same. They are like lamps of equal power which
kindle from one lamp to another. That is the transcendental potency of the
