Text 43] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 341

mac-cittaé mad-gata-prand bodhayantah parasparam
kathayantas ca mam nityam tusyanti ca ramanti ca

(Bg. 10.9)

The Supreme Lord is unlimited, and His energies are also unlimited. No
one can know them completely. Brahmaji, being the greatest living entity
within this universe and being directly instructed by the Lord, must know
more than anyone within this universe, although such knowledge may not
be complete, and thus it is the duty of everyone to ask about the un-
limited Lord from the spiritual master in the disciplic succession of Brahma,
which descends from Narada to Vyasa, from Vyasa to Sukadeva and so on.

TEXT 43
ae fares frat srerat aftaraeq |
zafi: Wares wa Fase lvl

tustam nisamya pitaram
lokanam prapitamaham

devarsih paripapraccha
bhavan yan manuprcchati

tustam—satisfied; nisamya—after seeing; pitaram—the father; lokanam—
of the whole universe; prapitamaham—the great-grandfather; devarsih—the
great sage Narada; paripapraccha—inquired; bhavan—y ourself; yat—as it is:
ma—from me; anuprechati—inquiring.

TRANSLATION

The great sage Narada also inquired in detail from his father Brahma,
the great-grand father of all the universe, after seeing him well satisfied.

PURPORT

The process of understanding spiritual or transcendental knowledge
from the realized person is not exactly like asking an ordinary question
from the schoolmaster. The schoolmasters in the modern days are paid
