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Kṛṣṇa Is the Source of All Incarnations
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has nothing to do, but because He is omnipotent, everything is performed by Him naturally, as if done automatically. As a matter of fact, the appearance and disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His different activities are all confidential, even to the Vedic literatures. Yet they are displayed by the Lord to bestow mercy upon the conditioned souls. We should always take advantage of the narrations of the activities of the Lord, which are meditations on Brahman in the most convenient and palatable form.
TEXT 36
स वा इदं विश्वममोघलीलः 
  सृजत्यवत्यत्ति न सज्जतेऽस्मिन् । 
  भूतेषु चान्तर्हित आत्मतन्त्रः 
  षाड्वर्गिकं जिघ्रति षड्गुणेशः ॥३६॥
sa vā idam viśvam amogha-līlaḥ 
  sṛjaty avaty atti na sajjate śmin 
  bhūteṣu cāntarhita ātma-tantraḥ 
  ṣāḍ-vargikam jighrati ṣaḍ-guṇeśaḥ
saḥ —the Supreme Lord;  vā —alternately;  idam —this;  viśvam —manifested universes;  amogha-līlaḥ —one whose activities are spotless;  sṛjati —creates;  avati atti —maintains and annihilates;  na —not;  sajjate —is affected by;  asmin —in them;  bhūteṣu —in all living beings;  ca —also;  antarhitaḥ —living within;  ātma-tantraḥ —self-independent;  ṣāṭ-vargikam —endowed with all the potencies of six opulences;  jighrati —superficially attached, like smelling the fragrance;  ṣaṭ-guṇeśaḥ —master of the six senses.
TRANSLATION
The Lord, whose activities are always spotless, is the master of the six senses and is omnipotent and full 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