650 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 16

could not completely comprehend what He was saying. They could not
even comprehend the purport of the speech or what the Supreme Lord
wanted to do. Nor could they understand whether the Lord was angry or
pleased with them.

TEXT 15

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te yoga-mayayarabdha-
paramesthya-mahodayam

procuh pranijalayo viprah
prahystah ksubhita-tvacah

te—those; yoga-mayaya—through His internal potency; arabdha—had
been revealed; paramesthya—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
mahd-udayam—multi-glories; procuh—spoke; prdajijalayah—with folded
hands; viprah—the four brahmanas; prahrstah—extremely delighted;
ksubhita-tvacah—hair standing on end.

TRANSLATION

The four brahmana sages were nevertheless extremely delighted to
behold Him, and they experienced a thrill throughout their bodies. They
then spoke as follows to the Lord, who had revealed the multi-glories of
the Supreme Personality through His internal potency, yogamaya.

PURPORT

The sages were almost too puzzled to speak before the Supreme
Personality of Godhead for the first time, and the hairs of their bodies
stood erect due to their extreme joy. The highest opulence in the material
world is called paramesthya, the opulence of Brahma. But that material
opulence of Brahma, who lives on the topmost planet within this
material world, cannot compare to the opulence of the Supreme Lord
because the transcendental opulence in the spiritual world is caused
by yogamaya, whereas the opulence in the material world is caused by
mahamaya.
