Text 30] The Glories of Devotional Service 1037

elevated to the Vaikuntha planets, directly in touch with the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, he is prone to fall down, either from the imperson-
al Brahman realization or from an ecstatic trance of meditation. Another
word in this verse, bhagavad-banah, is very significant. Banah means arrow.
The bhakti-yoga system is just like an arrow aiming up to the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. The bhakti-yoga system never urges one towards the
impersonal Brahman effulgence or to the point of Paramatma realization.
This bdnah, or arrow, is so sharp and swift that it goes directly to the Su-
preme Personality of Godhead, penetrating the regions of impersonal Brah-
man and localized Paramatma.

TEXT 30
aaaey farts aad aeqles |
aa year sald A aaa loll

tad etan me vijanthi
yathaham manda-dhir hare
sukham buddhyeya durbodham
yosa bhavad-anugrahat

tat etat—that same; me—to me; vijanihi— please explain; yatha—so that;
aham—I; manda—slow; dhih—whose intelligence; hare—O my Lord; sukham
—easily; buddhyeya—may understand; durbodham—very difficult to under-
stand; yosa—a woman; bhavat-anugrahat— by Your grace.

TRANSLATION

My dear son, Kapila, after all, I am a woman. It is very difficult for me
to understand the Absolute Truth because my intelligence is not very
great. But if You will kindly explain it to me, even though I am not very
intelligent, I can understand it and thereby feel transcendental happiness.

PURPORT

Knowledge of the Absolute ‘Truth is not very easily understood by
ordinary, less intelligent men; but if the spiritual master is kind enough to
the disciple, however unintelligent he may be, then by the divine grace of
the spiritual master everything is revealed. Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakura
therefore says, yasya prasadad, by the mercy of the spiritual master,
