daiva-karmātma-rūpiṇaḥ
daiva-karmātma-rūpiṇaḥ
kaḥ śraddadhyād upākartuṁ
yogamāyā-balodayam
O Vidura! Who can hope to describe fully this form which arose from yoga-māya and whose nature is time and karma?
This universal form has the nature of time (daiva) and karma. Actually these are subtle factors of māyā belonging to the Lord, but because they are energies of the Lord, they are identified with this form of the Lord. This form appears by the power yoga-māyā. Who could even desire (śradddhyāt) to describe completely (upākartum) this universe (etat)? Desiring to describe it is impossible, what to speak of actually describing it.
|| 3.6.36 ||
tathāpi kīrtayāmy aṅga
yathā-mati yathā-śrutam
kīrtiṁ hareḥ svāṁ sat-kartuṁ
giram anyābhidhāsatīm
O Vidura! I have thus described to you the glories of the Lord as I have heard from guru and according to my intelligence in order to purify myself of speaking other subjects.
I describe what I have heard from guru (yathā-śrutam), and according to how much I have understood (yathā-matiḥ) according to my intelligence. That means that he did not describe everything he heard. I do this to purify (sat-kartum) my words which have been contaminated (asatīm) by topics other than the Lord.
|| 3.6.37 ||
ekānta-lābhaṁ vacaso nu puṁsāṁ
suśloka-mauler guṇa-vādam āhuḥ
śruteś ca vidvadbhir upākṛtāyāṁ
kathā-sudhāyām upasamprayogam
O Vidura! It is said that describing the qualities of the Lord is the highest attainment for men’s words. It is also said that the highest attainment of mankind is hearing the sweet topics of the Lord which are described by the learned.
Because the ocean of topics of the Lord cannot be crossed, no one can have complete knowledge of this. People can become successful by chanting and hearing about the Lord, with some amount of knowledge and thus attain the Lord. Describing anything else is a waste of words. And it is the highest attainment to closely offer (upasamprayogam) the ears (śruteh) to nectar topics of the Lord described (upākrtāyām) by the learned.
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