Devanagari
स्वीयं वाक्यमृतं कर्तुमवतीर्णोऽसि मे गृहे ।
चिकीर्षुर्भगवान् ज्ञानं भक्तानां मानवर्धन: ॥ ३० ॥
Verse text
svīyaṁ vākyam ṛtaṁ kartum
avatīrṇo ’si me gṛhe
cikīrṣur bhagavān jṣānaṁ
bhaktānāṁ māna-vardhanaḥ
Synonyms
svīyam
—
Your own
;
vākyam
—
words
;
ṛtam
—
true
;
kartum
—
to make
;
avatīrṇaḥ
—
descended
;
asi
—
You are
;
me gṛhe
—
in my house
;
cikīrṣuḥ
—
desirous of disseminating
;
bhagavān
—
the Personality of Godhead
;
jṣānam
—
knowledge
;
bhaktānām
—
of the devotees
;
māna
—
the honor
;
vardhanaḥ
—
who increases .
Translation
Kardama Muni said: You, my dear Lord, who are always increasing the honor of Your devotees, have descended in my home just to fulfill Your word and disseminate the process of real knowledge.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
You, the Supreme Lord, desiring to give a method of knowledge, and increasing the honor of the devotees, have descended in my house to make your words true.
Two verses expand on this point. You desire to teach Sāṅkhya, a method of knowledge, but you increase the respect for your devotees more than for the jṣānīs, since the Lord has already established that knowledge is insignificant without bhakti.
Purport
When the Lord appeared before Kardama Muni after his mature
yoga
practice, He promised that He would become Kardama’s son. He descended as the son of Kardama Muni in order to fulfill that promise. Another purpose of His appearance is
cikīrṣur bhagavān jṣānam,
to distribute knowledge. Therefore He is called
bhaktānāṁ māna-vardhanaḥ,
“He who increases the honor of His devotees.” By distributing Sāṅkhya He would increase the honor of the devotees; therefore Sāṅkhya philosophy is not dry mental speculation. Sāṅkhya philosophy means devotional service. How could the honor of the devotees be increased unless Sāṅkhya were meant for devotional service? Devotees are not interested in speculative knowledge; therefore the Sāṅkhya enunciated by Kapila Muni is meant to establish one firmly in devotional service. Real knowledge and real liberation is to surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engage in devotional service.