SB 1.19.23 (1965)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 23
Samagatah sarvata eva sarve Veda yatha murtidharos tripristhe Na iha na amutra kaschana artha Rite para anugraham atmaseelam.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Samagatah—assembled, Sarvata—from all directions, Eva—certainly, Sarve—you all, Veda—knowledge supreme, Yatha—as as, Murtidharas—personified, Tripristhe—in the planet of Brahma (which is situated above the three planetary system namely the upper, intermediate and the lower worlds), Na—not, Iha—in this world, Atha—thereafter, Na—neither, Amutra—in the other world, Cha—also, Kaschana—anything whatsoever, Artha—interest, Rite—save and except, Para—others, Anugraham—doing good to, Atmaseelam—own nature.
TRANSLATION
Oh the great sages you have all assembled here very kindly from all directions of the universe. You are all as good as the personified knowledge supreme who resides in the planet situated above the three worlds (satyaloka). As such you are naturally inclined to do good to others and save and except this you have no other interest either in this or in the next life.
PURPORT
Six kinds of opulences namely wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation are all originally the different attributes pertaining to the Absolute Personality of Godhead. The living beings who are parts and parcel entities of the Supreme Being, have all the above attributes partially up to the full strength of seventy eight percent. In the material world these attributes of the living entities (up to the full strength of seventy eight percent of the Lord's attributes) become covered by the material energy as much the sun becomes covered by the cloud. The covered strength of the sun rays is very dim than the original glare and similarly living beings with such attributes become almost extinct from the original colour. There are three status of the planetary system namely the lower worlds, the intermediate worlds and the upper worlds. The human beings on the earth are situated in the beginning of the intermediate worlds but living beings like the Brahma and his contemporaries do live in the upper world and the topmost of them is the Satyaloka. In the Satyaloka the inhabitants are fully cognisant of the Vedic wisdom and thus the mystic cloud of material energy is cleared off and therefore they are known as the Vedas personified. Such persons being fully aware of the knowledge mundane and transcendental they have no interest of gain in either of the mundane or transcendental worlds. They are practically desireless devotees. In the mundane world they have nothing to achieve and in the transcendental world they are full in themselves. Then why do they come over the mundane world? They descend on different planets as messiahs by the order of the Lord to deliver the fallen souls of different planets. On the earth they come down on different parts and they do good to the people of the world in different circumstances under different climatic influence but they have nothing to do in this world save and except reclaiming the fallen souls rotting in the material existence, deluded by material energy.