588 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 10

the eyes of the conditioned souls. And because they have no eyes of
transcendental vision and because they cannot see the Personality of God-
head, they therefore deny the existence of the Lord as well as the transcen-
dental form of the Lord. The covering of the gigantic material feature is
accepted by such men with poor fund of knowledge, and how it becomes
so is explained in the following verse.

TEXT 34
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atah param stiksmatamam
avyaktam nirvigesanam

anadi-madh ya-nidhanam
nityam van-manasah param

atah—therefore; param—transcendental; sitksmatamam—finer than the
finest; avyaktam—unmanifested; nirvisesanam—without material features;
anadi—without beginning; madhya--without an intermediate stage; nid-
hanam—without end; nityam—eternal; vak—words; manasah—of the mind;
param—transcendental.

TRANSLATION

Therefore beyond this [gross manifestation] there is a transcendental
manifestation finer than the finest form, which has no beginning, no inter-
mediate stage and no end; therefore it is beyond the limits of expression or
mental speculation and is distinct from the material conception.

PURPORT

The gross external body of the Supreme is manifested at certain inter-
vals, and thus the external feature or form of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is not the eternal form of the Lord, which has no beginning, no
intermediate stage and no end. Anything which has beginning, interim and
end is called material. The material world is begun from the Lord, and thus
the form of the Lord, before the beginning of the material world, is cer-
tainly transcendental to the finest or the finer material conception. The
ether in the material world is considered to be the finest. Finer than the
