Text 36] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 521

Absolute Truth; jijndsund—the sailed eta of the Sell: | pannel
directly; vyatirekabhydm—indirectly; yat—whatever; syat—it may be:
sarvatra—in all space and time; sarvada@—in all circumstances.

TRANSLATION

A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the
Personality of Godhead, has to search it out up to this, certainly in all
circumstances, and in all space and time, and both directly and indirectly.

PURPORT

To unfold the mystery of bhakti-voga, as it is explained in the previous
verse. is the ultimate stage of all inquiries or the highest objective for the
inquisitive. Everyone is searching after self- vedlinatean | in different ways,
namely by karma- -yoga, by jidna-yoga, by dhyana-yoga, by rdja-voga, or
by bhakti-voga, etc. To engage in self-realization is the responsibility of
every living entity developed in consciousness. One who is developed in
consciousness certainly makes enquiries into the mystery of the self, of the
cosmic situation and of the problems of life, in all spheres and fields,
namely social, political, economic, cultural, religious, moral, etc., and in
their different branches. But here is explained the goal of all such inquiries.

The Vedanta-siitra philosophy begins with this inquiry of life and the
Bhdgavatam answers such inquiries up to this point. or the mystery of all
inquiries. Lord Brahma wanted to be perfectly educated by the Personality
of Godhead, and here is the answer by the Lord finished in four nutshell
verses, namely beginning from aham eva to this verse, etavad eva. This is
the end of all self-realization processes. Men do not know that the ultimate
goal of life is Visnu or the Supreme Personality of Godhead due to being
bewildered by the glaring reflection in the darkness, and as such everyone
is entering into the darkest region of material existence, driven by the
uncontrolled senses. The whole material existence has sprung up by sense
gratification, desires based principally on the sex desire, and the result is
that in spite of all advancement of knowledge, the final goal of all activities
of the living entities is sense gratification. But here is the real goal of life,
and everyone should know it by inquiries put before a bona fide spiritual
master expert in the science of bhakti-yoga, or from a living personality of
Bhdgavatam life. Everyone is engaged in various kinds of scriptural in-
