Text 40] Creation of the Universal Form 259
TRANSLATION

Words, mind and ego, with their respective controlling demigods, have
failed to achieve success in knowing the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Therefore, we simply have to offer our respectful obeisances unto Him as
a matter of sanity.

PURPORT

The froggish calculator may raise the objection that if the Absolute is
unknowable even by the controlling deities of speech, mind and ego,
namely the Vedas, Brahma, Rudra and all the demigods headed by
Brhaspati, then why should the devotees be so interested in this unknown
object? The answer is that the transcendental ecstasy enjoyed by the
devotees in delineating the pastimes of the Lord is certainly unknown to
nondevotees and mental speculators. Unless one relishes transcendental
joy, naturally one will come back from his speculations and concocted
conclusions because he will see them as neither factual nor enjoyable.
The devotees can at least know that the Absolute Truth is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead Visnu, as the Vedic hymns confirm: tad visnoh
paramam padam sada pasyanti surayah. Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 15.15) also
confirms this fact: vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah. By culture of
Vedic knowledge one must know Lord Krsna and should not falsely
speculate on the word aham or “‘l.” The only method for understanding
the Supreme Truth is devotional service, as stated in Bhagavad-gita
(18.55): bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah. Only by
devotional service can one know that the ultimate truth is the Personality
of Godhead and that Brahman and Paramatma are only His partial features.
This is confirmed in this verse by the great sage Maitreya. With devotion
he offers his sincere surrender, namah, to the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, bhagavate. One has to follow in the footsteps of great sages and
devotees like Maitreya and Vidura, Maharaja Pariksit and Sukadeva
Gosvami, and engage in the transcendental devotional service of the Lord
if he would know His ultimate feature, which is above Brahman and
Paramatma.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta Purports of the Third Canto, Sixth Chapter,
of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled ‘‘Creation of the Universal Form.”
