citraketuḥ uvāca - King Citraketu replied; bhagavan - O most powerful sage; kim - what; na - not; viditam - is understood; tapaḥ - by austerity; jñāna - knowledge; samādhibhiḥ - and by samādhi (trance, transcendental meditation); yoginām - by the great yogīs or devotees; dhvasta-pāpānām - who are fully freed from all sinful reactions; bahiḥ - externally; antaḥ - internally; śarīriṣu - in conditioned souls, who have material bodies.

King Citraketu said: O great lord Aṅgirā, because of austerity, knowledge and transcendental samādhi, you are freed from all the reactions of sinful life. Therefore, as a perfect yogī, you can understand everything external and internal regarding embodied, conditioned souls like us.