Translation:
O Supreme God, O Supreme Being, The bewildering illusory energy which constitutes this variegated material creation cannot touch You.
O Soul of all souls, I pay my humble obeisance unto You.
Purport:
There are three categories of evidences for receiving knowledge--pratyaksa, through direct perception , anumana, through inductive hypothesis, and agama, through the authoritative scriptures . Of these three sources, knowledge received through the scriptures is said to be perfect. As a demigod, Varurna has scriptural knowledge, and is why he clarifies his seeing God face to face. Unless he substantiates his seeing God face to face through scriptural evidence the act would be called imperfect .
There are four kinds of substantiations mentioned in the scriptures:
1) substantiating through the srutis, the words of God called the Vedas;
2) substantiating through the smrutis, the books of God called the Upanisads;
3) substantiating through the puranas, books written by God's incarnation presented as the accurate ancient histories and;
4) anubhavas, through the experiences of pure devotees of the Lord.
When these four substantiations are combined and verify a point, that point becomes Vaisnava philosophy, and that is why Vaisnava philosophy is said to be the topmost science in Vedic civilization. In other words, only when all the Vedic sources recommend something in one voice will a real Vaisnava accept it. If one follows this rule fraud can never mislead anyone at any time.
Lord Krishna is accepted as the Supreme God by all the Vedas, by all the Upanisads, by all the Puranas and by all the sages. The sages have personally seen Lord Krishna as did Varuna, as illustrated in this text, by seeing Him face to face.
