This shloka answers the eternal question – why can’t everybody see God? Why there are different schools of thought about God? How to purify heart to invite God?

smaraNE hi parEshiturasya vibhOrmalinAni manAMsi kutaH karaNam |

vimalaM hi padaM paramaM svarataM taruNArka savarNamajasya harEH || 1||

smaraNE hi parEshitur+asya vibhO–

Pareshita – one who controls all in the world

Vibhu – Omnipresent, omnipotent

malinAni manAMsi – Impure heart

Without purity of heart, one cannot grasp Swaroopa of God. All thoughts are always due to external forces – genetic, environmental forces.

kutaH karaNam- With such a impure heart, how can one aspire to see God.

vimalaM hi padaM – God is extremely pure

paramaM svarataM-  He is filled with swaroopa Ananda

taruNArka savarnam  –  In meditation he is seen as Youthful sun (sun during dawn)(colour of God). We don’t do this anvaya to setting sun as it is declining force.

ajasya harEH –  One who has no birth and death

All these are seen in meditation only when the impurity/darkness of heart is removed.

Eg: (Sattva – light, Rajas – Smoke, Tamas – firewood)

Hari’s Swaroopa is pure (without evil or other impurities), without Vikara or change due to birth, aging, death etc., supreme, self-fulfilled with bliss and of the colour of and brighter than the rising Sun. When one meditates on Him, the mind and Indriyas (sensory organs) will automatically get purified. (How can they remain impure?)