268 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 7
you because their compilers wrote the various scriptures after
receiving your glance.
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na te giri-trakhila-loka-pdla-
virifica-vaikuntha-surendra-gamyam
Jyotih param yatra rajas tamas ca
sattvarh na yad brahma nirasta-bhedam
na—not; te—of Your Lordship; giri-tra—O King of the mountains;
akhila-loka-pala—all the directors of departments of material activities;
viriica—Lord Brahma; vaikuntha—Lord Visnu; sura-indra—the King
of heaven; gamyam—they can understand; jyotih—effulgence;
param—transcendental; yatra—wherein; rajah—the mode of passion;
tamah ca—and the mode of ignorance; sattvam—the mode of goodness;
na—not; yat brahma—which is impersonal Brahman; _nirasta-
bhedam—without distinction between demigods and human beings.
TRANSLATION
O Lord Girisa, since the impersonal Brahman effulgence is tran-
scendental to the material modes of goodness, passion and ig-
norance, the various directors of this material world certainly
cannot appreciate it or even know where it is. It is not under-
standable even to Lord Brahma, Lord Visnu or the King of heaven,
Mahendra.
PURPORT
The brahmajyoti is actually the effulgence of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. As stated in Brahma-samhita (5.40):
