Text 23] Description of the Kingdom of God 593

Ue YA CAAT TTANT-
Rabe TITTY TAG dT URI

yan na vrajanty agha-bhido racananuvadac
chrnvanti ye ’nya-visayah ku-katha mati-ghnth
yas tu sruta hata-bhagair nrbhir atta-saras
tams tan ksipanty asaranesu tamahsu hanta

yat—Vaikuntha; na—never; vrajanti—approach; agha-bhidah—of the van-
quisher of all kinds of sins; racana—of the creation; anuvadat—than narra-
tions; srnvanti—hear; ye—those who; anya—other; visayah—subject matter;
ku-kathah—bad words; mati-ghnih—killing intelligence; yah—which; tu—
but; srutah—are heard; hata-bhagaih—unfortunate; nrbhih—by men; atta—
taken away; sdrah—values of life; tan tan—such persons; ksipanti—are
thrown; asaranesu—devoid of all shelter; 4amahsu—in the darkest part of
material existence; hanta—alas.

TRANSLATION

It is very much regrettable that unfortunate people do not discuss the
description of the Vaikuntha planets but engage in topics which are
unworthy to hear and which bewilder one’s intelligence. Those who give up
the topics of Vaikuntha and take to talk of the material world are thrown
into the darkest region of ignorance.

PURPORT

The most unfortunate persons are the impersonalists, who cannot
understand the transcendental variegatedness of the spiritual world. They
are afraid to talk about the beauty of the Vaikuntha planets because they
think that variegatedness must be material. Such impersonalists think that
the spiritual world is completely void, or, in other words, that there is no
variegatedness. This mentality is described here as ku-katha mati-ghnih,
intelligence bewildered by unworthy words. The philosophies of voidness
and of the impersonal situation of the spiritual world are condemned here
because they bewilder one’s intelligence. How can the impersonalist and
the void philosopher think of this material world, which is full of variegat-
edness, and then say that there is no variegatedness in the spiritual world?
It is said that this material world is the perverted reflection of the spiritual
world, so unless there is variegatedness in the spiritual world, how can
there be temporary variegatedness in the material world? That one can
