Text 37] | Prthu Maharaja’s Meeting with the Four Kumaras 937
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ATH Ae ATT AAAS MSHA 2 I |
tat tvam narendra jagatam atha tasthusam ca
dehendriyasu-dhisanatmabhir avrtanam
yah ksetravit-tapataya hrdi visvag avih
pratyak cakasti bhagavams tam avehi so ’smi
tat—therefore; tuam—you; narendra—O best of the kings; jagatam—of
the moving; atha—therefore; tasthusam—the immovable; ca—also; deha—
body; indriya—senses; asu—life air; dhisana—by consideration; atmabhih—
self-realization; avrtanam—those who are covered in that way; yah—one
who; ksetra-vit—knower of the field; tapataya—by controlling; hrdi—within
the heart; visvak—everywhere; avih—manifest; pratyak—in every hair
follicle; cakasti—shining; bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
tam—unto Him; avehi—try to understand; sah asmi—I am that.
TRANSLATION
Sanat-kumara advised the King: My dear King Prthu, try to understand
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is living within everyone’s heart
along with the individual soul, in each and every body, either moving or
not moving. They are fully covered by the gross material body and subtle
body made of the life air and intelligence.
PURPORT
In this verse it is specifically advised that instead of wasting time in
the human form of life endeavoring for economic development and sense
gratification, one should try to cultivate spiritual values by understanding
the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is existing within the individual
soul within everyone’s heart. The individual soul and the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead in His Paramatma feature are both sitting within this
body, which is covered by gross and subtle elements. To understand this is
to attain actual spiritual culture. There are two ways of advancing in
spiritual culture—by the method of the impersonalist philosophers and by
devotional service. The impersonalist comes to the conclusion that he and
the Supreme Spirit are one, whereas devotees or personalists realize the
Absolute Truth by understanding that the Absolute Truth is the supreme
predominator and we living entities are predominated; therefore our duty
is to serve Him. The Vedic injunctions say: tat tvam asi, ‘‘You are the
same,” and so ‘ham, “] am the same.” The impersonalist conception of
these mantras is that the Supreme Lord or the Absolute Truth and the
living entity are one, but from the devotee’s point of view these mantras
