116 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 16

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tatah samadhaya mano manisaya
babhasa etat pratilabdha-vag asau

niyamya sarvendriya-bahya-vartanam
Jagad-gurum sdatvata-sdstra-vigraham

tatah—thereafter; samadhaya—controlling; manah—the mind;
manisaya—by his intelligence; babhdsa—spoke; etat—this; pra-
tilabdha—recovering; vak—speech; asau—that one (King Citraketu);
niyamya—controlling; sarva-indriya—of all the senses; bahya—exter-
nal; vartanam—the wandering; jagat-gurum—who is the spiritual
master of everyone; sdtvata—of devotional service; sdstra—of the holy
scriptures; vigraham—the personified form.

TRANSLATION

Thereafter, by controlling his mind with his intelligence and
thus restricting his senses from external engagements, he
recovered suitable words with which to express his feelings. Thus
he began offering prayers to the Lord, who is the personification
of the holy scriptures [the satvata-sarnhitas like the Brahma-
sarnhita and the Narada-paficaratra] and who is the spiritual master
of all. He offered his prayers as follows.

PURPORT

One cannot offer prayers to the Lord with mundane words. One must
become spiritually advanced by controlling the mind and senses. Then he
can find suitable words to offer in prayers to the Lord. Quoting the
following verse from the Padma Purana, Srila Sanatana Gosvami forbids
us to sing any song not sung by authorized devotees.

avaisnava-mukhodgirnam
piatarn hari-kathamrtam
Sravanam naiva kartavyam

sarpocchistam yatha payah
