भगवन्तं परं ब्रह्म सत्त्वेनांशेन शत्रुहन् ।
तत्त्वसङ्ख्यानविज्ञप्त्यै जातं विद्वानजः स्वराट् ॥१०॥

bhagavantaá¹ paraá¹ brahma
sattvenÄmÅ›ena Å›atru-han
tattva-saá¹…khyÄna-vijñaptyai
jÄtaá¹ vidvÄn ajaḥ svarÄá¹­

 bhagavantam - the Lord; param - supreme; brahma - Brahman; sattvena - having an uncontaminated existence; amÅ›ena - by a plenary portion; Å›atru-han - O killer of the enemy, Vidura; tattva-saá¹…khyÄna - the philosophy of the twenty-four material elements; vijñaptyai - for explaining; jÄtam - appeared; vidvÄn - knowing; ajaḥ - the unborn (Lord BrahmÄ); sva-rÄá¹­ - independent.


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Maitreya continued: O killer of the enemy, the unborn Lord BrahmÄ, who is almost independent in acquiring knowledge, could understand that a portion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His quality of pure existence, had appeared in the womb of DevahÅ«ti just to explain the complete state of knowledge known as sÄá¹…khya-yoga.

Purport

In Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ, Fifteenth Chapter, it is stated that the Lord Himself is the compiler of the VedÄnta-sÅ«tra and is the perfect knower of the VedÄnta-sÅ«tra. Similarly, the SÄá¹…khya philosophy is compiled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His appearance as Kapila. There is an imitation Kapila who has a SÄá¹…khya philosophical system, but Kapila the incarnation of God is different from that Kapila. Kapila the son of Kardama Muni, in His system of SÄá¹…khya philosophy, very explicitly explained not only the material world but also the spiritual world. BrahmÄ could understand this fact because he is svarÄá¹­, almost independent in receiving knowledge. He is called svarÄá¹­ because he did not go to any school or college to learn but learned everything from within. Because BrahmÄ is the first living creature within this universe, he had no teacher, his teacher was the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, who is seated in the heart of every living creature. BrahmÄ acquired knowledge directly from the Supreme Lord within the heart; therefore he is sometimes called svarÄá¹­ and aja.

Another important point is stated here. SattvenÄá¹Å›ena: when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears, He brings with Him all His paraphernalia of Vaikuṇṭha; therefore His name, His form, His quality, His paraphernalia and His entourage all belong to the transcendental world. Real goodness is in the transcendental world. Here in the material world, the quality of goodness is not pure. Goodness may exist, but there must also be some tinges of passion and ignorance. In the spiritual world the unalloyed quality of goodness prevails; there the quality of goodness is called Å›uddha-sattva, pure goodness. Another name for Å›uddha-sattva is vasudeva because God is born from Vasudeva. Another meaning is that when one is purely situated in the qualities of goodness, he can understand the form, name, quality, paraphernalia and entourage of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The word aá¹Å›ena also indicates that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, appeared as Kapiladeva in a portion of His portion. God expands either as kalÄ or as aá¹Å›a. Aá¹Å›a means “direct expansion,†and kalÄ means “expansion of the expansion.†There is no difference between the expansion, the expansion of the expansion, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly, as there is no difference between one candle and another — but still the candle from which the others are lit is called the original. Kṛṣṇa is therefore called the Parabrahman, or the ultimate Godhead and cause of all causes.