AiPa cediSa PaaPae>Ya" SaveR>Ya" PaaPak*-taMa" )
Sav| jaNaâveNaEv v*iJaNa& SaNTairZYaiSa )) 36 ))
api ced asi päpebhyaù
sarvebhyaù päpa-kåt-tamaù
sarvaà jïäna-plavenaiva
våjinaà santariñyasi
SYNONYMS
api-even; cet-if; asi-you are; päpebhyaù-of sinners; sarvebhyaù-of all; päpa-kåt-tamaù-the greatest sinner; sarvam-all such sinful reactions; jïäna-plavena-by the boat of transcendental knowledge; eva-certainly; våjinam-the ocean of miseries; santariñyasi-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 Kåñëa 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 Kåñëa consciousness is very simple, but at the same time the most sublime.
