Text 43] The Demigods Appeal to the Lord 191
who are highly learned have rejected it. May the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, who is the controller of everything, be
pleased with us.
PURPORT

The word durvibhdvyam is very important in this verse. No one can
understand how everything is happening in this material world by the
arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through His ma-
terial energies. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (9.10), mayddhyaksena
prakrtih sityate sacardcaram: everything is actually happening under
the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This much we can
learn, but how it is happening is extremely difficult to understand. We
cannot even understand how the affairs within our body are
systematically taking place. The body is a small universe, and since we
cannot understand how things are happening in this small universe, how
can we understand the affairs of the bigger universe? Actually this uni-
verse is very difficult to understand, yet learned sages have advised, as
Krsna has also advised, that this material world is duhkhdlayam
asaSvatam; in other words, it is a place of misery and temporality. One
must give up this world and go back home, back to the Personality of
Godhead. Materialists may argue, “If this material world and its affairs
are impossible to understand, how can we reject it?” The answer is pro-
vided by the word prabudhadpabadham. We have to reject this material
world because it is rejected by those who are learned in Vedic wisdom.
Even though we cannot understand what this material world is, we
should be ready to reject it in accordance with the advice of learned per-

sons, especially the advice of Krsna. Krsna says:

mam upetya punar janma

duhkhdélayam asaésvatam

na@pnuvanti mahatmanah
samsiddhim paramam gatah

‘After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never
return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they
have attained the highest perfection.” (Bg. 8.15) One has to return
home, back to Godhead, for this is the highest perfection of life. To go
