प्रक्ष्यामि पश्चादधुना सुबोधम् ।
अध्यात्मयोगग्रथितं तवोक्त
माख्याहि कौतूहलचेतसो मे ॥३॥
tasmÄd bhavantaá¹ mama samÅ›ayÄrthaá¹
praká¹£yÄmi paÅ›cÄd adhunÄ subodham
adhyÄtma-yoga-grathitaá¹ tavoktam
ÄkhyÄhi kautÅ«hala-cetaso me
tasmÄt - therefore; bhavantam - to you; mama - of me; samÅ›aya-artham - the subject matter that is not clear to me; praká¹£yÄmi - I shall submit; paÅ›cÄt - afterwards; adhunÄ - now; su-bodham - so that it can be clearly understood; adhyÄtma-yoga - of mystic instruction for self-realization; grathitam - as composed; tava - your; uktam - speech; ÄkhyÄhi - please explain again; kautÅ«hala-cetasaḥ - whose mind is very inquisitive to understand the mystery of such statements; me - to me.
Whatever doubts I have about a particular subject matter I shall ask you about later. For the time being, these mysterious yoga instructions you have given me for self-realization appear very difficult to understand. Please repeat them in a simple way so that I can understand them. My mind is very inquisitive, and I want to understand this clearly.
The Vedic literature instructs: tasmÄd guruá¹ prapadyeta jijñÄsuḥ Å›reya uttamam. An intelligent man must be very inquisitive to know the transcendental science deeply. Therefore one must approach a guru, a spiritual master. Although Jaá¸a Bharata explained everything to MahÄrÄja RahÅ«gaṇa, it appears that his intelligence was not perfect enough to understand clearly. He therefore requested a further explanation. As stated in Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (4.34): tad viddhi praṇipÄtena paripraÅ›nena sevayÄ. The student must approach a spiritual master and surrender unto him fully (praṇipÄtena). He must also question him in order to understand his instructions (paripraÅ›nena). One should not only surrender to the spiritual master but also render loving service unto him (sevayÄ) so that the spiritual master will be pleased with the student and explain the transcendental subject matter more clearly. A challenging spirit before the spiritual master should be avoided if one is at all interested in learning the Vedic instructions in depth.
