258 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 6

PURPORT

The froggish philosophers and mundane wranglers in science and mathe-
matical calculation may not believe in the inconceivable potency of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, but they are sometimes puzzled by the
wonderful jugglery of man and nature. Such jugglers and magicians of the
mundane world are actually puzzled by the jugglery of the Lord in His
transcendental activities, but they try to adjust their bewilderment by
saying that it is all mythology. There is, however, nothing impossible or
mythological in the Supreme Omnipotent Person. The most wonderful
puzzle for the mundane wranglers is that while they remain calculating
the length and breadth of the unlimited potency of the Supreme Person,
His faithful devotees are set free from the bondage of material encagement
simply by appreciating the wonderful jugglery of the Supreme in the
practical field. The devotees of the Lord see the wonderful dexterity in
everything with which they come in contact in all circumstances of
eating, sleeping, working, etc. A small banyan fruit contains thousands of
small seeds, and each seed holds the potency of another tree, which again
holds the potency of many millions of such fruits as causes and effects.
So the trees and seeds engage the devotees in meditation about the activi-
ties of the Lord, while the mundane wranglers waste time in dry specula-
tion and mental concoction, which are fruitless both in this life and the
next. In spite of their pride in speculation, they can never appreciate the
simple potential activities of the banyan tree. Such speculators are poor
souls destined to remain in matter perpetually.

TEXT 40

TAS ATA TT AAA AE |
me ART OH RAT AMAA AA: Mvoll

yato ‘prapya nyavartanta
vacas ca manasa saha

aham canya ime devas
tasmai bhagavate namah

yatah—from whom; aprapya—being unable to measure; nyavartanta—
cease to try; vacah—words; ca—also; manasa—with the mind; saha—
with; aham ca—also the ego; anye—other; ime—all these; devah—demigods;
tasmai—unto Him; bhagavate—unto the Personality of Godhead; namah—
offer obeisances.
