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	| Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 
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 << VERSE 48 >>
 
 yaṁ vai na veda vitathākṣa-pathair bhramad-dhīḥ
 santaṁ svakeṣv asuṣu hṛdy api dṛk-patheṣu
 tan-māyayāvṛta-matiḥ sa u eva sākṣād
 ādyas tavākhila-guror upasādya vedam
 
 WORD BY WORD
 
 
 
 TRANSLATION
 
 
 |   | A materialist, his intelligence perverted by the action of his deceptive senses, cannot recognize You at all, although You are always present within his own senses and heart and also among the objects of his perception. Yet even though one’s understanding has been covered by Your illusory potency, if one obtains Vedic knowledge from You, the supreme spiritual master of all, he can directly understand You. 
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 PURPORT
 
 
 |   | This verse has not purport by His Holiness Hṛdayānanda dās Gosvāmi, initiated disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmī Prabhupāda. 
 
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