840 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 21
one can hear the transcendental name of Krsna, no one can understand
His transcendental form, and no one can assimilate His transcendental pas-
times. It is not possible. Then how is it possible that He can be seen and
understood? When one is trained in devotional service and renders service
unto Him, gradually one’s senses are purified of material contamination.
When one’s senses are thus purified, then one can see, one can understand,
one can hear and so on. The purification of the material senses and percep-
tion of the transcendental form, name and quality of Krsna are combined

together in one word, pratyag-aksaja, which is used here.

TEXT 34
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Rrgarafigaficgar:
ALL MEAL
niriksatas tasya yaydav asesa-
siddhesvarabhistuta-siddha-margah
akarnayan patra-rathendra-paksair
uccaritam stomam udirna-sima

niriksatah tasya—while he was looking on; yayau—He left; asesa—all;
siddha-isvara—by liberated souls; abhistuta—is praised; siddha-margah—the
way to the spiritual world; dkarnayan—hearing; patra-ratha-indra—of
Garuda (king of birds); paksaih-by the wings; uccaritam—vibrated;

stomam—hymns; udirna-sama—forming the Sama Veda.

TRANSLATION
While the sage stood looking on, the Lord left by the pathway leading
to Vaikuntha, a path extolled by all great liberated souls. The sage stood
listening as the hymns forming the basis of the Sama Veda were vibrated
by the flapping wings of the Lord’s carrier, Garuda.
PURPORT

In the Vedic literature it is stated that the two wings of the transcenden-
tal bird Garuda, who carries the Lord everywhere, are two divisions of the
Sdma Veda known as brhat and rathantara. Garuda works as the carrier of
