# SB 5.10.20 ## Text > sa vai bhavāḹ loka-nirīkṣaṇārtham > avyakta-liṅgo vicaraty api svit > yogeśvarāṇāṁ gatim andha-buddhiḥ > kathaṁ vicakṣīta gṛhānubandhaḥ ## Synonyms *saḥ*—that Supreme Personality of Godhead or His incarnation Kapiladeva; *vai*—indeed; *bhavān*—your good self; *loka*-*nirīkṣaṇa*-*artham*—just to study the characteristics of the people of this world; *avyakta*-*liṅgaḥ*—without manifesting your real identity; *vicarati*—are traveling in this world; *api* *svit*—whether; *yoga*-*īśvarāṇām*—of all the advanced *yogīs*; *gatim*—the characteristics or actual behavior; *andha*-*buddhiḥ*—who are illusioned and have become blind to spiritual knowledge; *katham*—how; *vicakṣīta*—may know; *gṛha*-*anubandhaḥ*—I who am bound by attachment to family life, or worldly life. ## Translation **Is it not a fact that your good self is the direct representative of Kapiladeva, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? To examine people and see who is actually a human being and who is not, you have presented yourself to be a deaf and dumb person. Are you not moving this way upon the surface of the world? I am very attached to family life and worldly activities, and I am blind to spiritual knowledge. Nonetheless, I am now present before you and am seeking enlightenment from you. How can I advance in spiritual life?** ## Purport Although Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa was playing the part of a king, he had been informed by Jaḍa Bharata that be was not a king nor was Jaḍa Bharata deaf and dumb. Such designations were simply coverings of the spirit soul. Everyone must come to this knowledge. As confirmed in *Bhagavad-gītā* [[bg/2/13|(Bg. 2.13)]]: *dehino 'smin yathā dehe.* Everyone is encased within the body. Since the body is never identical with the soul, the bodily activities are simply illusory. In the association of such a *sādhu* as Jaḍa Bharata, Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa came to the awareness that his activities as a royal authority were simply illusory phenomena. He therefore agreed to receive knowledge from Jaḍa Bharata, and that was the beginning of his perfection. *Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet* [MU 1.2.12]. A person like Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa, who was very inquisitive to know the value of life and the spiritual science, must approach a personality like Jaḍa Bharata. *Tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam* (SB 11.3.21). One must approach a *guru* like Jaḍa Bharata, a representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to inquire about the goal of human life.