Text 35] Bhagavatam is the Answer 589
ether is mind, intelligence, and false ego. But all the eight outward cover-
ings are explained as outer coverings of the Absolute Truth. The Absolute
Truth is therefore beyond the expression and speculation of the material
conception, He is certainly transcendental to all material conceptions.
This is called nirvisesanam. One should not, however, misunderstand
nirvisesanam as being without any transcendental qualifications. Visesanam
means qualities. Therefore nir added with it means that He has no mate-
rial qualities or variegatedness. This nullifying expression is described in
four transcendental qualifications, namely unmanifested, transcendental,
eternal and beyond the conception of mind or word. Beyond the limits of
words means negation of the material conception, and unless one is
transcendentally situated, it is not possible to know the transcendental
form of the Lord.
TEXT 35
Tat wea’ wa a aaa |
TH aT a Teter arTTS fafa: 34
amuni bhagavad-riipe
maya te hy anuvarnite
ubhe api na grhnanti
maya-srste vipas-citah
amuni—all these; bhagavat—unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
ripe—in the forms; maya—by me; te—unto you; hi—certainly ; anuvarnite—
described respectively; ubhe—both; api—also; na—never; grhnanti—accepts;
maya—external; srste—being so manifested; vipas-citah—the learned one
who knows.
TRANSLATION
Both the above forms of the Lord, as just described unto you from the
material angle of vision, are not accepted by the pure devotees of the Lord
who know Him well.
PURPORT
The impersonalists think of the Absolute Personality of Godhead in two
different ways, as above mentioned. On the one hand they worship the
