Text 54] Matsya, the Lord’s Fish Incarnation 269
tad viddhi pranipdatena
pariprasnena sevaya
upadeksyanti te jidnam
Jfidninas tattva-darsinah
“Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire
from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized
soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.”
Lord Krsna directly instructed Arjuna. Arjuna is therefore tattva-darsi
or guru. Arjuna accepted the Supreme Personality of Godhead (pararh
brahma pararh dhama pavitrarh paramam bhavan). Similarly, following
in the footsteps of Sri Arjuna, who is a personal devotee of the Lord, one
should accept the supremacy of Lord Krsna, as supported by Vyasa,
Devala, Asita, Narada and later by the dcdryas Ramanujacarya,
Madhvacarya, Nimbarka and Visnusvami and still later by the greatest
dcarya, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Where, then, is the difficulty in find-
ing a guru? If one is sincere he can find the guru and learn everything.
One should take lessons from the guru and find out the goal of life.
Maharaja Satyavrata, therefore, shows us the way of the mahdjana.
Mahdjano yena gatah sa panthah. One should surrender to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead (dasdvatdra) and learn from Him about the
spiritual world and the goal of life.
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Sri-Suka uvdca
ity uktavantam nrpatim
bhagavan ddi-pirusah
matsya-ripi mahadmbhodhau
viharams tattvam abravit
$ri-Sukah uvdca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; iti—thus; uktavantam-
—being addressed by Maharaja Satyavrata; nrpatim—unto the King;
bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ddi-piuirusah—the
