Text 24] The Harnsa-guhya Prayers 211

universe, he would still be unable to understand the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. As confirmed in Brahma-samhita (5.34):

panthas tu koti-sata-vatsara-sarnpragamyo
vayor athapi manaso muni-purgavandm

so ‘py asti yat-prapada-simny avicintya-tattve
govindam ddi-purusam tam aham bhajami

The conditioned souls may try to understand the Supreme Personality of
Godhead for many billions of years through their mental speculative pro-
cesses, traveling at the speed of the mind or the wind, but still the Ab-
solute Truth will remain inconceivable to them because a materialistic
person cannot measure the length and breadth of the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead’s unlimited existence. If the Absolute Truth is
beyond measurement, one may ask, how can one realize Him? The
answer is given here by the word svayambhuve: one may understand
Him or not, but nevertheless He is existing in His own spiritual potency.

TEXT 24
TAT Taq AIAT: Feshary |
TT A aftr samMee-
MAM AAT TARR 12VII

na yasya sakhyam puruso ’vaiti sakhyuh
sakha vasan sarvasatah pure ’smin
guno yatha gunino vyakta-drstes
tasmai mahesaya namaskaromi

na—not; yasya—whose; sakhyam—fraternity; purusah—the living
entity; avaiti—knows; sakhyuh—of the supreme friend; sakha—the
friend; vasan—living; sarmvasatah—of the one living with; pure—in
the body; asmin—this; gunah—the object of sense perception; yatha—
just like; guninah—of its respective sense organ; vyakta-drsteh —who
