SB 1.5.16
प्रवर्तमानस्य गुणैरनात्मनस्ततो भवान्दर्शय चेष्टितं विभोः ॥ १६ ॥
ananta-pārasya nivṛttitaḥ sukham
pravartamānasya guṇair anātmanas tato
bhavān darśaya ceṣṭitaṁ vibhoḥ
Synonyms
vicakṣaṇaḥ60 — only a person of highly refined discernment [of exceptionally skilled intellection (ati-nipuṇaḥ kaścid eva); having intuited the essential truth of the self, the non-self, and the Supreme Self (ātmānātma-paramātma-tattva-jñaḥ)61]; nivṛttitaḥ — who is uninvolved with worldly action [through abandonment of all such action (sarva-kriyā-nivṛttyā)]; arhati — is eligible; veditum — to directly experience [or to immediately cognize (jñātum); (sākṣāt-kartum)62]; sukham — the absolute bliss [or the essential nature, constituted of the same unqualified bliss (nirvikalpa-sukhātmakaṁ svarūpam)]; asya — of this; vibhoḥ — Omnipresent; ananta-pārasya — Unlimited Transcendence [Bhagavān, who is without temporal or spatial limit (na antaḥ kālataḥ pārañ ca desato yasya tasya)]; [this, however, is not the case for the undiscerning (na punar avicakṣaṇaḥ pravṛtti-svabhāvaḥ)]; tataḥ — therefore [for this reason (kāranāt)]; bhavān — [may] you; darśaya — kindly disclose [or set forth by authoring a literary composition (prabandha-nirmāṇena varṇaya)63]; ceṣṭitam — the divine acts [or transcendental play (līlām eva)64]; vibhoḥ — of Bhagavān; anātmanaḥ — for those who are bodily identified [dehābhimāninaḥ]; [ata eva] pravartamānasya — [and thus] propelled to action; guṇaiḥ — by the guṇas [namely, sattva and so on].
Translation
Only a person of highly refined discernment, who is uninvolved with worldly action, is eligible to directly experience the absolute bliss of this Omnipresent, Unlimited Transcendence [Bhagavān]. [This, however, is not the case for the undiscerning.] Therefore, kindly disclose the divine acts of Bhagavān for those who are bodily identified and thus propelled to action by the guṇas.