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TEXT 36 api ced asi papebhyah
SYNONYMS  api--even;
cet--if; asi--you are; papebhyah--of sinners; sarvebhyah--of
all; papa-krttamah--the greatest sinner; sarvam--all such
sinful actions; jnana-plavena--by the boat of transcendental knowledge;
eva--certainly; vrjinam--the ocean of miseries; santarisyasi--you
will cross completely.
TRANSLATION Even if you
are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated
in the boat of transcendental knowledge, you will be able to cross over
the ocean of miseries.
PURPORT Proper understanding
of one's constitutional position in relationship to Krsna is so nice that
it can at once lift one from the struggle for existence which goes on in
the ocean of nescience. This material world is sometimes regarded as an
ocean of nescience and sometimes as a blazing forest. In the ocean, however
expert a swimmer one may be, the struggle for existence is very severe.
If someone comes forward and lifts the struggling swimmer from the ocean,
he is the greatest savior. Perfect knowledge, received from the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, is the path of liberation. The boat of Krsna consciousness
is very simple, but at the same time the most sublime.
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