mahyaṁ sa bhagavān paraḥ
ity āvedita-hārdāya
mahyaṁ sa bhagavān paraḥ
ādideśāravindākṣa
ātmanaḥ paramāṁ sthitim
When I asked the lotus-eyed Lord what I desired in my heart, he explained to me his supreme position.
He explained this to me, and not to Maitreya. He explained the eternal abodes in Dvārakā and other places, the places of pastimes (sthitim). He spoke about the inconceivable energy by which non-action and action co-exist in the Lord. This was not revealed by Śukadeva, or by Uddhava to Vidura. It was revealed by the Lord himself, to Uddhava alone, and to no one else, because there was not yet an authoritative conclusion on this matter. It is said in Laghu-bhagavatāmṛta:
tat tan na vāstavaṁ cet syāt vidyāṁ buddhi-bhramas tadā |
na syād evety acintyaiva śaktir līlāsu kāraṇam ||
yathā yathā ca tasyecchā sā vyanakti tathā tathā ||
If contradiction was not a fact, then those wise sages would not have been bewildered. Thus the inconceivable energy is the cause of the pastimes of the Lord. Whenever the Lord desires, his inconceivable energy makes its appearance and acts.
|| 3.4.20 ||
sa evam ārādhita-pāda-tīrthād
adhīta-tattvātma-vibodha-mārgaḥ
praṇamya pādau parivṛtya devam
ihāgato ’haṁ virahāturātmā
Having attained knowledge by learning the truth from the guru in the form of the worshipable Lord, I offered respects to his feet, circumambulated him and arrived here, my heart pained by separation from him.
I (saḥ), having the path of knowledge of the Lord after studying it from the guru (tīrtha) who was the worshipable Lord (ārādhita-pāda), circumambulating him, I left. I did not see what the Lord did later.
|| 3.4.21 ||
so ’haṁ tad-darśanāhlāda-
viyogārti-yutaḥ prabho
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