Text 49] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 269
Tatra tisthami nadrada yatra gayanti mad-bhaktah: the Supreme Lord
stays only where His devotees chant His glories.
TEXT 49
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aT Hamat: aeeTAAl: |
HeTeaaeT Tear fee fea fe ear
aa fray afin fafa aeaTql 28
naite gund na gunino mahad-ddayo ye
sarve manah prabhrtayah sahadeva-martyah
ady-antavanta urugaya vidanti hi tvam
evam vimrsya sudhiyo viramanti sabdat
na—neither; ete—all these; gunadh—three qualities of material
nature; na—nor; guninah—the predominating deities of the three
modes of material nature (namely Lord Brahma, the predominating deity
of passion, and Lord Siva, the predominating deity of ignorance);
mahat-ddayah—the five elements, the senses and the sense objects;
ye—those which; sarve—all; manah—the mind; prabhrtayah—and so
on; saha-deva-martyah—with the demigods and the mortal human
beings; ddi-anta-vantah—who all have a beginning and end; urugaya—
O Supreme Lord, who are glorified by all saintly persons; vidanti—
understand; hi—indeed; ¢tvdm—Your Lordship; evam—thus;
vimrsya—considering; sudhiyah—all wise men; viramanti—cease;
sabdat—from studying or understanding the Vedas.
TRANSLATION
Neither the three modes of material nature [sattva-guna, rajo-
guna and tamo-gunal], nor the predominating deities controlling
these three modes, nor the five gross elements, nor the mind, nor
the demigods nor the human beings can understand Your Lord-
ship, for they are all subjected to birth and annihilation. Consider-
ing this, the spiritually advanced have taken to devotional service.
Such wise men hardly bother with Vedic study. Instead, they
engage themselves in practical devotional service.
