Text 8] Activities of Kapila 1427

according to the Vedic rituals. Any devotee who is chanting the holy
name of the Lord is the best kind of Aryan. Unless one studies the Vedas,
one cannot become an Aryan, but it is automatically understood that the
chanters have already studied all the Vedic literature. The specific word
used here is anticuh, which means that because they have already completed
all those recommended acts, they have become qualified to be spiritual
masters.

The very word grnanti, which is used in this verse, means to be
already established in the perfectional stage of ritualistic performances.
If one is seated on the bench of a high court and is giving judgement on
cases, it means that he has already passed all legal exams and is better than
those who are engaged in the study of law or those who are expecting to
study law in the future. In a similar way, persons who are chanting the
holy name are transcendental to those who are factually performing the
Vedic rituals and those who expect to be qualified (or, in other words,
those who are born in families of brahmanas but have not yet undergone
the reformatory processes and who therefore expect to study the Vedic
rituals and perform the sacrifices in the future).

There are many Vedic versions in different places saying that anyone
who chants the holy name of the Lord becomes immediately freed from
conditional life and that anyone who hears the holy name of the Lord,
even though born of a family of dog-eaters, also becomes liberated from
the clutches of material entanglement.

TEXT 8

qd ame va wt gad
TAPATR Ale ATTEAY |

aaa TATNTTE

ae Fey atid Jap cI

tam tvém aham brahma param pumamsam
pratyak-srotasy dtmani samvibhavyam
sva-tejasd dhvasta-guna-pravaham
vande visnum kapilam veda-garbham

tam—unto Him; tvam—You; aham—I; brahma—Brahman; param—
supreme; pumadmsam—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pratyak-
