Text 20] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 489
TEXT 20
aae afta: THT Aa fT |
Fat wat TTA ZANT: ALATA Ro
Sri bhagavan uvaca
tvayaham tositah samyag
veda-garbha sisrksaya
ciram bhrtena tapasa
dustosah kiita-yoginam—

§ri bhagavan uvaca—the all-beautiful Personality of Godhead said; tvaya
—by you; aham—I am; tositah—pleased; sam yak—complete; veda-garbha—
impregnated with the Vedas; sisrksaya—for creating; ciram—for a long
time; bhrtena—accumulated; tapasd—by penance; dustosah—very hard to
please ; kiita-yoginam—for the pseudo mystics.

TRANSLATION

The beautiful Personality of Godhead addressed Lord Brahma: O
Brahma, impregnated with the Vedas, I am very much pleased with your
long accumulated penance with the desire for creation. Hardly am I
pleased with the pseudo mystics.

PURPORT

There are two kinds of penance: one for sense gratification and the
other for self-realization. There are many pseudo mystics who undergo
severe penances for their own satisfaction, and there are others who under-
go severe penances for the satisfaction of the senses of the Lord. For
example, the penances undertaken to discover nuclear weapons will
never satisfy the Lord because such a penance is never satisfactory. By
nature’s Own way, everyone has to meet death, and if such a process of
death is accelerated by anyone’s penances, there is no satisfaction of the
Lord. The Lord wants every one of His parts and parcels to attain eternal
life and bliss by coming home to Godhead, and the whole material creation
is meant for that objective. Brahma underwent severe penances for that
purpose, namely to regulate the process of creation so that the Lord might
