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TEXT 10
nama atma-pradipaya
saksine paramatmane
namo giram viduraya
manasas cetasam api
SYNONYMS
namah—I offer my respectful obeisances; atma-pradipaya—unto He who is self-effulgent or who gives enlightenment to the living entities; saksine—who is situated in everyone’s heart as a witness; parama-atmane—unto the Supreme Soul, the Supersoul; namah—I offer my respectful obeisances; giram—by words; viduraya—who is impossible to reach; manasah—by the mind; cetasam—or by consciousness; api—even.
TRANSLATION
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self-effulgent Supersoul, who is the witness in everyone’s heart, who enlightens the individual soul and who cannot be reached by exercises of the mind, words or consciousness.
PURPORT
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, cannot be understood by the individual soul through mental, physical or intellectual exercises. It is by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that the individual soul is enlightened. Therefore, the Lord is described here as atma-pradipa. The Lord is like the sun, which illuminates everything and cannot be illuminated by anyone. Therefore, if one is serious about understanding the Supreme, one must receive enlightenment from Him, as instructed in Bhagavad-gita. One cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead by one’s mental, physical or intellectual powers.
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