1016 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 25

called material happiness, material distress will follow. This is the law of
the material world. Lord Kapila states that the yoga system is the science
of the spirit. One practices yoga in order to attain perfection on the
spiritual platform. There is no question of material happiness or distress.
It is transcendental. Lord Kapila will eventually explain how it is transcen-
dental, but the preliminary introduction is given here.

TEXT 14
afd a seni aa qT |
NTH ATA At Aa NI

tam imam te pravaksyami
yam avocam puranaghe

rsinadm srotu-kamanam
yogam sarvanga-naipunam

tam imam—that very; te—to you; pravaksyami—I shall explain; yam—
which; avocam—I explained; pura—formerly; anaghe—O pious mother;
rsinam—to the sages; srotu-kamanam—eager to hear; yogam—yoga system;
sarva-anga—in all respects; naipunam—serviceable and practical.

TRANSLATION

O most pious mother, | shall now explain unto you the ancient yoga
system which I explained formerly to the great sages. It is serviceable and
practical in every way.

PURPORT

The Lord does not manufacture a new system of yoga. Sometimes it is
claimed that someone has become an incarnation of God and is expounding
a new theological aspect of the Absolute Truth. But here we find that
although Kapila Muni is the Lord Himself and is capable of manufacturing
a new doctrine for His mother, He nevertheless says, “I shall just explain
the ancient system which I once explained to the great sages because they
were also anxious to hear about it.”” When we have a superexcellent process
already present in Vedic scriptures, there is no need to concoct a new
system to mislead the innocent public. At present it has become a fashion
to reject the standard system and present something bogus in the name of
a newly invented process of yoga.
