Text 34] The Harnsa-guhya Prayers 237

imagine or concoct a form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but
devotees want to worship the actual Personality of Godhead. Therefore
Daksa prays, “One may think of You as personal, impersonal or imagi-
nary, but I wish to pray to Your Lordship that You fulfill my desires to
see You as You actually are.’

Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakura comments that this verse is es-
pecially meant for the impersonalist, who thinks that he himself is the
Supreme because there is no difference between the living being and
God. The Mayavadi philosopher thinks that there is only one Supreme
Truth and that he is also that Supreme Truth. Actually this is not knowl-
edge but foolishness, and this verse is especially meant for such fools,
whose knowledge has been stolen by illusion (mayayapahrta-jnanah).
Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says that such persons, jnidni-maninah,
think themselves very advanced, but actually they are unintelligent.

In regard to this verse, Srila Madhvacarya says:

svadeha-stham harim prahur
adhama jivam eva tu

madhyamés capy anirnitarh
Jivad bhinnam janardanam

There are three classes of men—the lowest (adhama), those in the mid-
dle (madhyama), and the best (uttama). The lowest (adhama) think that
there is no difference between God and the living entity except that the
living entity is under designations whereas the Absolute Truth has no
designations. In their opinion, as soon as the designations of the material
body are dissolved, the jiva, the living entity, will mix with the Supreme.
They give the argument of ghatakasa-patakasa, in which the body is
compared to a pot with the sky within and the sky without. When the pot
breaks, the sky inside becomes one with the sky outside, and so the im-
personalists say that the living being becomes one with the Supreme.
This is their argument, but Srila Madhvacarya says that such an argu-
ment is put forward by the lowest class of men. Another class of men
cannot ascertain what the actual form of the Supreme is, but they agree
that there is a Supreme who controls the activities of the ordinary living
being. Such philosophers are accepted as mediocre. The best, however,
are those who understand the Supreme Lord (sac-cid-dnanda-vigraha).
