378 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 11

brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate. Even after coming to the
platform of understanding tattva, one must worship Bhagavan, Visnu
and His expansions, or one is not yet perfect. Bahiinari janmandm ante
Jiidnavan mam prapadyate: after many births, one who is actually in
knowledge surrenders unto Krsna. The conclusion is that unintelligent
men with a poor fund of knowledge cannot understand Bhagavan, Brah-
man or Paramatma, but after studying the Vedas and attaining the un-
derstanding of the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
one is supposed to be on the platform of perfect knowledge.

TEXT 3

qa wa TAM Ae
qaaraney = ara: aaa |
aa firearm geahaict
17a Mg GF Aq Il 2 I

na tasya tattva-grahandya saksad
variyasir api vacah samasan

svapne niruktya grhamedhi-saukhyam
na yasya heyanumitam svayam syat

na—not: tasya—of him (a student studying the Vedas): tattva-
grahanaya—for accepting the real purpose of Vedic knowledge: sak-
sat—directly; variyasih—very exalted: api—although; vacah—words
of the Vedas; samdésan—sufficiently became: svapne—in a dream:
niruktya—by example: grha-medhi-saukhyam—happiness within this
material world: na—not; yasya—of him who: heya-anumitam —con-
cluded to be inferior; suvayam—automatically; syat—become.

TRANSLATION

A dream becomes automatically known to a person as false and
immaterial, and similarly one eventually realizes that material hap-
piness in this life or the next, on this planet or a higher planet, is
insignificant. When one realizes this, the Vedas, although an ex-
