Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.3.36

sa vā idam viśvam amogha-līlah

srijaty avaty atti na sajjate 'smin

bhūteshu cāntarhita ātma-tantrah

shād-vargikam jighrati shad-guneśah

SYNONYMS

sah — the Supreme Lord; vā — alternately; idam — this; viśvam — manifested universes; amogha-līlah — one whose activities are spotless; srijati — creates; avati atti — maintains and annihilates; na — not; sajjate — is affected by; asmin — in them; bhūteshu — in all living beings; ca — also; antarhitah — living within; ātma-tantrah — self-independent; shāt-vargikam — endowed with all the potencies of His opulences; jighrati — superficially attached, like smelling the fragrance; shat-guna-īśah — master of the six senses.

TRANSLATION

The Lord, whose activities are always spotless, is the master of the six senses and is fully omnipotent with six opulences. He creates the manifested universes, maintains them and annihilates them without being in the least affected. He is within every living being and is always 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. Here He is called the amogha-līlah, which indicates that 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 thus He is the master of the senses. He creates these manifested universes in order 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, as one smells odor without being connected with the odorous article. Nongodly elements, therefore, can never approach Him, despite all endeavors.

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