314 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 6

ship of transcendental loving service will always be infallible in words and
action. The reason is that the Supreme Lord is Absolute Truth, and any-
thing earnestly dovetailed with the Absolute Truth attains the same tran-
scendental quality. On the other hand, any amount of mental speculation
on the strength of material science and knowledge without any bona fide
touch with the Absolute Truth is sure to be a mundane untruth and failure,
simply due to not being in touch with the Absolute Truth. Such godless,
unfaithful words and actions, however materially enriched, are never to be
trusted. That is the purport of this important verse. A grain of devotion is
more valuable than tons of faithlessness.

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so’ham samamnayamayas tapomayah
praja-patindm abhivanditah patih

asthaya yogam nipunam samahitas
tarn nadhyagaccham yata atma-sambhavah

sah aham—myself (the great Brahma); samamnayamayah—in the chain
of disciplic succession of Vedic wisdom; tapomayah—successfully under-
gone all austerities; praja-patinam—of all the forefathers of living entities;
abhivanditah—worshipable; patih—master; dsthaya—successfully practiced;
yogam—mystic powers; nipunam—very expert; samahitah—self-realized;
tam—the Supreme Lord; na—did not; adhyagaccham—properly understood;
yatah—from whom; atma-—self; sambhavah—generated.

TRANSLATION

Although I am known as the great Brahma, perfect in the disciplic
succession of Vedic wisdom, and although I have undergone all austerities
and am an expert in mystic powers and self-realization, and although I am
