Text 23] Bhagavatam is the Answer 575

TEXT 22
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bodhyamanasya rsibhir
atmanas taj jighrksatah

karnau ca nirabhidyetam
digah srotram guna-grahah

bodhyamanasya—desiring to understand; rsibhih by the authorities;
atmanah—of the Supreme Being; tat—that; jighrksatah—when he desired
to take up; karnau—the ears; ca—also; nirabhid yetam—became manifested;
disah—the direction or the god of air; srotram—the power of hearing; guna-

grahah—and the objects of hearing.
TRANSLATION

By development of the desire of the great sages to know, the ears, the
power of hearing, the controlling deity of hearing, and the objects of
hearing became manifested. The great sages desired to hear about the Self.

PURPORT

As is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, one should try to know by advance-
ment of knowledge about the Supreme Lord, the summum bonum of
everything. Knowledge does not mean to know the laws of nature or of
physical knowledge that are working by the direction of the Lord. The
scientists are eager to hear about the physical laws that are working in the
material nature. They are eager to hear through the medium of radio and
television about the things which are taking place far away from them in
other planets, but they should know that the power of hearing and the
instruments for hearing were given to them by the Lord for hearing about
the Self, or about the Lord. Unfortunately the power of hearing is mis-
used in hearing the vibrations of mundane affairs. The great sages were
interested to hear about the Lord through Vedic knowledge and nothing
more. And that is the beginning of aural reception of knowledge.

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