ūdho!, balihārī yehi gyāna

English meaning

Maidens of Braja, addressing Uddhava, state tauntingly – “Uddhava! Your knowledge is really blessed! You are telling us that the individual soul is Brahma Himself and māyā is merely an illusion; it has no existence at all. We ask you, to whom are you giving this knowledge - to the individual soul or someone else? If you are imparting this knowledge to the individual soul, then, as you yourself preach, the individual soul is Brahma Himself whose knowledge is eternal and imperishable. If you are giving this knowledge to some other element, then, according to your own opinion, everything besides Brahma is merely an illusion. It can never exist. We further ask you that do you consider ignorance to have a beginning (i.e. it began one day) or do you consider it beginning-less (that it never began)? If you regard it to be beginning-less, then two elements will prove to be eternal - Brahma and ignorance, whereas according to your philosophy, there exists only one element - Brahma.” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “And if you consider ignorance to have a beginning, then it infers that ignorance was preceded by knowledge. How then, can it be possible for knowledge to be overpowered by ignorance?”

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Prem Ras Madira (English), Part 2 · PDF page 256 · printed page 591.

Meanings: Smt. Padmā Devī. English translation and transliteration: Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī. Source details.