Text 19] Maharaja Rahigana Meets Jada Bharata 361

secure shelter; tat—that which; saksat harim—directly the Supreme
Personality of Godhead; jridna-kald-avatirnam—who has descended as
the incarnation of complete knowledge in His plenary portion known as
Kapiladeva.

TRANSLATION

I consider your good self the most exalted master of mystic
power. You know the spiritual science perfectly well. You are the
most exalted of all learned sages, and you have descended for the
benefit of all human society. You have come to give spiritual
knowledge, and you are a direct representative of Kapiladeva, the
incarnation of God and the plenary portion of knowledge. I am
therefore asking you, O spiritual master, what is the most secure
shelter in this world?

PURPORT
As Krsna confirms in Bhagavad-gita:

yoginam api sarvesam
mad-gatenantaradtmana

Sraddhévan bhajate yo mam
sa me yuktatamo matah

“Of all yogis, he who abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in
transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga
and is the highest of all.”” (Bg. 6.47)

Jada Bharata was a perfect yogi. He was formerly the emperor Bharata
Maharaja, and he was now the most exalted personality among learned
sages and the master of all mystic powers. Although Jada Bharata was an
ordinary living entity, he had inherited all the knowledge given by the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kapiladeva. He could therefore be
taken directly as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As confirmed by
Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakura in his stanzas to the spiritual
master: sdksdd-dharitvena samasta-sastraih. An exalted personality like
Jada Bharata is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because
he fully represents the Lord by giving knowledge to others. Jada Bharata
