Text 10] Conversation Between Maitreya and Vidura 763

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vidura uvdca
prajdpati-patih srstva
prajd-sarge prajapatin
kim drabhata me brahman
prabrithy avyakta-marga-vit

vidurah uvaca— Vidura said; prajdpalti-patih— Lord Brahma; srstvd—after
creating; prajd-sarge—for the purpose of creating living beings; prajapatin—
the prajdpatis; kim—what; drabhata—started; me—to me; brahman—O holy
sage; prabrihi—tell; avyakta-marga-vit—knower of that which we do not
know.

TRANSLATION
Vidura said: Since you know of matters inconceivable to us, tell me, O
holy sage, what did Brahma do to create living beings after evolving the
prajapatis, the progenitors of living beings?

PURPORT

Significant here is the word avyakta-marga-vit, one who knows that
which is beyond our perception. To know matters beyond one’s perception,
one has to learn from a superior authority in the line of disciplic succession.
Just to know who is our father is beyond our perception. For that, the
mother is the authority. Similarly, we have to understand everything
beyond our perception from the authority who actually knows. The first
avyakta-marga-vit, or authority, is Brahma, and the next authority in
disciplic succession is Narada. Maitreya Rsi belonged to that disciplic suc-
cession, so he also is avyakla-marga-vit. Anyone in the bona fide line of
disciplic succession is avyakta-marga-vit, a personality who knows that
which is beyond ordinary perception.

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