312 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 6

TEXT 34
aq and ase aiiqeera
Aq Hea AAA BI Ta: |
aa eta qacaacay
TR AMAIA Tal BE 13

na bharati me’nga mrsopalaksyate
na vai kvacin me manaso mrsd gatih
na me hrstkani patanty asat-pathe
yan me hrdautkanthyavatd dhrto harih

na—never; bhdrati—statements; me—mine; anga—O Narada; mrsa@—un-
truth; upalaksyate—prove to be; na—never; vai—certainly; kvacit—at any
time; me—mine; manasah—of the mind; mrsd—untruth; gatih—progress;
na—nor; me—mine; hrsikdni—senses; patanti—degrades; asat-pathe—in the
temporary matter; yat—because; me—mine; hrdd—heart; autkanthyavata—
by great carnestness: dhrtah—caught hold of; hanh—the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

O Narada, because I have caught hold of the lotus feet of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Hari, with great zeal, whatever | say has never
proved to have been false. Nor is the progress of my mind ever deterred.
Nor are my senses ever degraded by temporary attachment to matter.

PURPORT

Lord Brahma is the original speaker of Vedic wisdom to Narada, and
Narada is the distributor of transcendental knowledge all over the world
through his various disciples, like Vyasadeva and others. The followers of
Vedic wisdom accept the statements of Brahmaji as gospel truth, and
transcendental knowledge is thus being distributed all over the world by
the process of disciplic succession from time immemorial, since the
beginning of the creation. Lord Brahmi is the perfect liberated living being
within the material world, and any sincere student of transcendental
knowledge must accept the words and statements of Brahmaji as infallible.
The Vedic knowledge is infallible because it comes down directly from the
