asau guṇamayair bhāvair bhūta-sūkṣmendriyātmabhiḥ sva-nirmiteṣu nirviṣṭo bhuṅkte bhūteṣu tad-guṇān
Synonyms
asau—maintains; guṇamayaiḥ—all these; bhāvaiḥ—in the mode of goodness; bhūta—all over the universe; sūkṣma—generally; indriya—the master of all the universes; ātmabhiḥ—pastimes; sva-nirmiteṣu—incarnation; nirviṣṭaḥ—assuming the role; bhuṅkte—the demigods; bhūteṣu—lower animals; tat-guṇān—in the mdist of human beings.
Translation
Thus the Lord of the universes maintains all the universal planets domiciled by the demigods, human beings or other than the human beings,—by His pastimes and incarnations just to reclaim the living beings there in the mode of pure goodness.
Purport
There are innumerable material universes and in each and every universe there are innumerable planets inhabited by different grades of living entities in different modes of nature. The Lord (Vishnu) incarnates Himself in each and every one of them and in each and every type of living societies. He manifests His transcendental pastimes amongest them just to create the mentality of going back to Godhead. The Lord does not change His original transcendental position but He appears to be differently manifested according to the particular time circumstances and society.
Sometimes He incarnates Himself or empowers a suitable living being to act for Him but all the same the purpose is the same that the Lord wants the suffering living being to go back to home go back to Godhead. The happiness which the living beings are hunkering after is not to be found within any corner of the innumerable universes and material planets. The eternal happiness which the living being wants is obtainable in the kingdom of God and the forgetful living beings under the influence of material modes have no information of the Kingdom of God. He therefore comes to propagate the message of the Kingdom of God either personally as incarnation or through His bonafide representatives as the good son of God. Such incarnation or the sons of God are not only making propaganda of going Back to Godhead within human society but also the propaganda wosk in going on in all types of societies including demigods or those who are other than the human beings.