tasmÄt taveha bhagavann atha tÄvakÄnÄá¹
Å›uklÄá¹ tanuá¹ sva-dayitÄá¹ kuÅ›alÄ bhajanti
yat sÄtvatÄḥ puruá¹£a-rÅ«pam uÅ›anti sattvaá¹
loko yato 'bhayam utÄtma-sukhaá¹ na cÄnyat
tasmÄt - therefore; tava - Your; iha - in this world; bhagavan - O Supreme Lord; atha - and; tÄvakÄnÄm - of Your devotees; Å›uklÄm - transcendental; tanum - the personal form; sva-dayitÄm - most dear to them; kuÅ›alÄḥ - those who are expert in spiritual knowledge; bhajanti - worship; yat - because; sÄtvatÄḥ - the great devotees; puruá¹£a - of the original Personality of Godhead; rÅ«pam - the form; uÅ›anti - consider; sattvam - the mode of goodness; lokaḥ - the spiritual world; yataḥ - from which; abhayam - fearlessness; uta - and; Ätma-sukham - the happiness of the soul; na - not; ca - and; anyat - any other.
O Lord, because fearlessness, spiritual happiness and the kingdom of God are all achieved through the mode of pure goodness, Your devotees consider this mode, but never passion and ignorance, to be a direct manifestation of You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Intelligent persons thus worship Your beloved transcendental form, composed of pure goodness, along with the spiritual forms of Your pure devotees.
Intelligent persons do not worship the demigods, who represent the modes of passion and ignorance. Lord BrahmÄ represents passion, Lord Åšiva represents ignorance, and demigods such as Indra also represent the modes of material nature. But Lord Viṣṇu, or NÄrÄyaṇa, represents pure spiritual goodness, which brings one realization of the spiritual world, freedom from fear, and spiritual bliss. Such benefits can never be derived from impure, material goodness, for it is always mixed with the modes of passion and ignorance. As clearly indicated in this verse, the transcendental form of God is fully constituted of eternal spiritual goodness and thus has no tinge of the material mode of goodness, passion or ignorance.
