Ādi-līlā, Chapter 4
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TEXT 8
অন্নং-ভগবানের কর্ম নহে ভারহরণ ।
স্বিতিকর্তা বিষ্ণু করেন জগৎপালম ॥ ৮ ॥
svayam-bhagavānera karma nahe bhāra-haraṇa sthiti-kartā viṣṇu karena jagat-pālana
SYNONYMS
svayam-bhagavānera —of the original Supreme Personality of Godhead;  karma —the business;  nahe —is not;  bhāra-haraṇa —taking away the burden;  sthiti-kartā —the maintainer;  viṣṇu —Lord Viṣṇu;  karena —does;  jagat-pālana —protection of the universe.
TRANSLATION
To take away this burden, however, is not the work of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The maintainer, Lord Viṣṇu, is the one who protects the universe.
TEXT 9
কিন্তু কৃষ্ণের যেই হয় অবতার-কাল ।
ভারহরণ-কাল তাতে হইল মিশাল ॥ ৯ ॥
kintu kṛṣṇera yei haya avatāra-kāla bhāra-haraṇa-kāla tāte ha-ila miśāla
SYNONYMS
kintu —but;  kṛṣṇera —of Lord Kṛṣṇa;  yei —that which;  haya —is;  avatāra —of incarnation;  kāla —the time;  bhāra-haraṇa —of taking away the burden;  kāla —the time;  tāte —in that;  ha-ila —there was;  miśāla —mixture.
TRANSLATION
But the time to lift the burden of the world mixed with the time for Lord Kṛṣṇa's incarnation.
PURPORT
We have information from  Bhagavad-gītā  that the Lord appears at particular intervals to adjust a time-worn spiritual culture. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared at the end of Dvāpara-yuga to regenerate the spiritual culture of human society and also to manifest His transcendental pastimes. Viṣṇu is the authorized Lord who maintains the created cosmos, and He is also the principal Deity who makes adjustments for improper administration in the cosmic creation. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the primeval Lord, and He appears not to make such administrative adjustments but only to exhibit His transcendental pastimes and thus attract the fallen souls back home, back to Godhead. However, the time for administrative rectification and the time for Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa's appearance coincided at the end of the last Dvāpara-yuga. Therefore when