acintyÄḥ khalu ye bhÄvÄ
na tÄá¹s tarkeṇa yojayet
prakṛtibhyaḥ paraṠyac ca
tad acintyasya lakṣaṇam

 acintyÄḥ - inconceivable; khalu - certainly; ye - those; bhÄvÄḥ - subject matters; na - not; tÄn - them; tarkeṇa - by argument; yojayet - one may understand; praká¹›tibhyaḥ - to material nature; param - transcendental; yat - that which; ca - and; tat - that; acintyasya - of the inconceivable; laká¹£aṇam - a symptom.


Text

“Anything transcendental to material nature is called inconceivable, whereas arguments are all mundane. Since mundane arguments cannot touch transcendental subject matters, one should not try to understand transcendental subjects through mundane arguments.â€

Purport

This verse from the MahÄbhÄrata (Bhīṣma-parva 5.22) is also quoted in the Bhakti-rasÄmá¹›ta-sindhu (2.5.93), by ÅšrÄ«la RÅ«pa GosvÄmÄ«.