Text 32] Mother Parvati Curses Citraketu 199

nor; brahma-putrah—the sons of Lord Brahma; munayah—great
saintly persons; sura-isah—all the great demigods; vidama—know:
yasya—of whom; ihitam—activity; amsaka-amsakah—those who are
parts of the parts; na—not; tat—His; sva-riéipam—real personality;
prthak—separate; isa—rulers; maéninah—who consider ourselves to be.

TRANSLATION

Neither I [Lord Siva], nor Brahma, nor the Aévini-kumaras, nor
Narada or the other great sages who are Brahma’s sons, nor even
the demigods can understand the pastimes and personality of the
Supreme Lord. Although we are part of the Supreme Lord, we
consider ourselves independent, separate controllers, and thus we
cannot understand His identity.

PURPORT
Brahma-samhita (5.33) states:

advaitam acyutam anédim ananta-riipam
ddyam purdna-purusam nava-yauvanam ca

vedesu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktau
govindam ddi-purusarn tam aham bhajami

“I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who is the
original person. He is absolute, infallible and beginningless, and al-
though expanded into unlimited forms, He is still the same original per-
son, the oldest person, who always appears as a fresh youth. The eternal.
blissful, all-knowing forms of the Lord can not be understood even by
the best Vedic scholars, but they are always manifest to pure, unalloyed
devotees.” Lord Siva places himself as one of the nondevotees, who can-
not understand the identity of the Supreme Lord. The Lord, being
ananta, has an unlimited number of forms. Therefore, how i is it possible
for an ordinary, common man to understand Him? Lord Siva, of course.
is above the ordinary human beings, yet he is unable to understand the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Siva is not among the ordinary
living entities, nor is he in the category of Lord Visnu. He is between
Lord Visnu and the common living entity.
