Text 32] The Sacrifice Performed by Daksa 241
PURPORT

It is said that the transcendental name, qualities, activities, paraphernalia,
etc., of the Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot be understood with
our material senses. The attempt of the empiric philosophers to understand
the Absolute Truth by speculation is always futile because their process of
understanding, their objective and the instruments by which they try to
understand the Absolute Truth are all material. The Lord is aprakyta,
beyond the creation of the material world. This fact is also accepted by
the great impersonalist Sankaracarya: narayanah paro ‘vyaktad andam
avyakta-sambhavam. Avyakta, or the original material cause, is beyond
this material manifestation and is the cause of the material world. Because
Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is beyond the material
world, one cannot speculate upon Him by any material method. One has to
understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead simply by the transcen-
dental method of Krsna consciousness. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
(Bg. 18.55). Bhaktya mam abhijanati: Only by devotional service can one
understand the transcendental form of the Lord. That is the difference
between the impersonalists and the personalists. The impersonalists,
limited by their speculative processes, cannot even approach the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, whereas the devotees please the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead through His transcendental loving service. Sevonmukhe
hi: Due to the service attitude of the devotee, the Lord is revealed to him.
The Supreme Lord cannot be understood by materialistic persons even
though He is present before them. In Bhagavad-gita, Lord Krsna therefore
condemns such materialists as midhas. Midha means rascal. It is said in
the Gita, “Only rascals think of Lord Krsna as an ordinary person. They
do not know what Lord Krsna’s position is or what His transcendental
potencies are.”” Unaware of His transcendental potencies, the impersonal-
ists deride the person of Lord Krsna, whereas the devotees, by dint of
their service attitude, can understand Him as the Personality of Godhead.
In the Tenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna also confirmed that it is
very difficult to understand the personality of the Lord.

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