← Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1962)

Chapter 3: Description of Incarnations of Godhead

Verse 36 of 44
SB 1.3.36

sa ba idam viswam amoghalilah srijati avatayati na sajjate asmin bhuteshu chantarhita atmatantrah sadbargikam jighrati sadgunesha.

Synonyms

sathe supreme Lord; baalternately; idamthis; viswammanifestive universes; amoghaliahone whose activities are spotless; avatayatimaintains and annihilates; nanot; sajjatebecomes affected by; asminin them; bhuteshuin all living beings; chaalso; antarhitaliving within; sadbargikamendowed with all the potencies of six opulences; jighratisuperficially attached like smelling the flavour; sadguneshamaster of the six senses.

Translation

The Lord whose activities are always spotless is the master of the six senses and is omnipotent fully with six opulences. As such He creates the manifestive universes, maintains them and then again annihilates them without being the least affected by those actions. He is within every living being and is always self independent.

Purport

The prime difference between the Lord and the living entities is that the Lord is the creator and the living entities are the created. He is called here as the Amoghalilah which means there is nothing lamentable in His creation. Those who create disturbance in His creation are themselves disturbed. He is transcendental to all material afflictions because He is full with all six opulences namely wealth, power, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation and as such He is the master of all senses. He creates this manifestive universes inorder to reclaim the living beings who are within them suffering threefold miseries, maintains them and in due course annihilates them without being the least affected by such actions. He is connected with this material creation very superficially like one smells the odour without being connected with the ordourous article. None-godly elements therefore can never approach Him inspite of all endeavors.

Verse 36 of 44
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