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
qe frat frat arerat aframey |
qf: aes wa THATS |e
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
