Text 29] The Harhsa-guhya Prayers 221
TEXT 29
qafarem TaaT  fretid
Rrarafirat aaatta 7 |
A aq aed goed fe Taq
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yad yan niruktam vacasa niriipitam
dhiyaksabhir va manasota yasya
ma bhiit svariipam guna-riipam hi tat tat
sa vai gundpdya-visarga-laksanah

yat yat—whatever; niruktam—expressed; vacasa—by words;
niripitam —ascertained; dhiyd—by so-called meditation or intelligence;
aksabhih—by the senses; v@—or; manasa—by the mind; uta—cer-
tainly; yasya—of whom; md bhiit—may not be; sva-riijpam—the actual
form of the Lord; guna-riipam—consisting of the three qualities; hi—
indeed; tat tat—that; sah—that Supreme Personality of Godhead; vai—
indeed; guna-apdya—the cause of the annihilation of everything made
of the material modes of nature; visarga—and the creation; laksanah—
appearing as.

TRANSLATION

Anything expressed by material vibrations, anything ascertained
by material intelligence and anything experienced by the material
senses or concocted within the material mind is but an effect of the
modes of material nature and therefore has nothing to do with the
real nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme
Lord is beyond the creation of this material world, for He is the
source of the material qualities and creation. As the cause of all
causes, He exists before the creation and after the creation. I wish
to offer my respectful obeisances unto Him.

PURPORT

One who manufactures names, forms, qualities or paraphernalia per-

taining to the Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot understand Him,
