Text 30] The Hamsa-guhya Prayers 223

aries and names. As confirmed in the Vedas, yato vdco nivartante/
aprapya manasé saha: the name, form, attributes and paraphernalia of
the Lord cannot be ascertained through a material dictionary. However,
if one reaches the transcendental platform of understanding the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes well acquainted with
everything, material and spiritual. This is confirmed in another Vedic
mantra: tam eva viditvatimrtyum eti. If one can somehow or other, by
the grace of the Lord, understand the transcendental position of the
Lord, one becomes eternal. This is further confirmed by the Lord Him-

self in Bhagavad-gita (4.9):

Janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ’rjuna

“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and
activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this ma-
terial world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” Simply by under-
standing the Supreme Lord, one goes beyond birth, death, old age and
disease. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami therefore advised Maharaja Pariksit in

Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.1.5):

tasmad bharata sarvatma
bhagavan isvaro harih

Srotavyah kirtitavyas ca
smartavyas cecchatabhayam

‘‘O descendant of King Bharata, one who desires to be free from all mis-
eries must hear, glorify and also remember the Personality of Godhead.
who is the Supersoul, the controller and the savior from all miseries.”

TEXT 30

afay att ta 7 aw
Aq A 7 Fed HAA Fy |
