240 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 7

the list of offenders. Ignorant personalities, or conditioned souls, have no
choice but to accept their precarious condition under material nature. The
only remedy is to surrender to Visnu and always pray to be excused. One
should depend only on the causeless mercy of the Lord for deliverance and
not even slightly on one’s own strength. That is the perfect position of a
Krsna conscious person. The Lord is everyone’s friend, but He is especially
friendly to the surrendered soul. The simple process is, therefore, that a
conditioned soul should remain surrendered to the Lord, and the Lord
will give him all protection to keep him out of the clutches of material
contamination.

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ETT
qaeaei wadisat yri-
Fame: gen Tadtaq
aA AWA ITA art
ARS SAfahent AARTTI VI

brahmovaca
naitat svarupam bhavato ‘sau padartha-
bheda-grahaih puruso yavad ikset
jiianasya carthasya gunasya casrayo
maya-mayad vyatirikto matas tvam

brahma uvaca—Lord Brahmi said; na— not; etat—this;svariipam — eternal
form; bhavatah— Your; asau—that other; pada-artha—knowledge; bheda—
different; grahaih—by the acquiring; purusah—person; ydvat—as long as;
ikset—wants to see; jfidnasya—of knowledge; ca—also; arthasya—of the
objective; gunasya—of the instruments of knowledge; ca—also; asrayah—
the basis; mdya@-mayat—from being made of material energy; vyatiriktah—
distinct; matah—regarded; tuam— You.

TRANSLATION

Lord Brahma said: My dear Lord, Your personality and eternal form
cannot be understood by any person who is trying to know You through
the different processes of acquiring knowledge. Your position is always
transcendental to the material creation, whereas the empiric attempt to
understand You is material, as are its objectives and instruments.
