Text 32] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 505

guna—qualities; karmakah—activities; tatha—so and so: eva—certainly:
tattva-vijndnam— factual realization; astu—let it be unto you; fe—unto vou:
mat—Mine; anugrahat—by causeless mercy.

TRANSLATION

All of Me, namely My actual eternal form, My transcendental existence,
color, qualities and activities—let all be awakened within you by factual
realization, out of My causeless mercy.

PURPORT

The secret of success in understanding the intricacies of knowledge of
the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is the causeless merey of
the Lord. Even in the material world, the father of many sons discloses the
secret of his position to the pet sons. The father discloses the confidence
unto the son whom he thinks worthy. An important man in the social
order can be known by his mercy only. Similarly, one must be very dear to
the Lord in order to know the Lord. The Lord is unlimited: no one can
know Him completely, but one’s advancement in the transcendental loving
service of the Lord can make one eligible to know the Lord. Here we can
see that the Lord is sufficiently pleased with Brahmaji, and therefore He
offers His causeless mercy to him so that Brahmaji may have the factual
realization of the Lord by His mercy only.

In the Vedas also it is said that a person cannot know the Absolute
Truth Personality of Godhead simply by dint of mundane education or
intellectual gymnastics. One can know the Supreme Truth if one has
unflinching faith in the bona fide spiritual master as well as in the Lord.
Such a faithful person, even though illiterate in the mundane sense, can
know the Lord automatically by the mercy of the Lord. In the Bhagavad-
gitd also, it is said that the Lord reserves the right of not being exposed to
everyone, and He keeps Himself concealed from the faithless by His
yoga-maya potency.

To the faithful the Lord reveals Himself in His form, quality and
pastimes. The Lord is not formless, as it is wrongly conceived by the
impersonalist, but His form is not like one that we have experienced. The
Lord discloses His form, even to the extent of measurement, to His pure
devotees, and that is the meaning of ydvdn, as is explained by Srila Jiva
Gosvami, the greatest scholar of Srimad-Bhagavatam.
