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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 3]
called the  amogha-līlaḥ , 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. Non-godly elements therefore can never approach Him, despite all endeavours.
TEXT 37
न चास्य कश्चिन्निपुणेन धातु- र्वैति जन्तुः कुमनीष ऊतीः । नामानि रूपाणि मनोवचोभिः सन्तन्वतो नटचर्यामिवाज्ञः ॥३७॥
na cāsya kaścin nipuṇena dhātur avaiti jantuḥ kumanīṣa ūtīḥ nāmāni rūpāṇi mano-vacobhiḥ santanvato naṭacaryām ivājñaḥ
na—not; ca—and; asya—of Him; kaścit—anyone; nipuṇena—by dexterity; dhātuḥ—of the creator; avaiti—can know; jantuḥ—the living being; kumanīṣaḥ—with a poor fund of knowledge; ūtīḥ—activities of the Lord; nāmāni—His names; rūpāṇi—His forms; mano-vacobhiḥ—by dint of mental speculation or deliverance of speeches; santanvataḥ—displaying; naṭacaryām—a dramatic action; iva—like; ajñaḥ—the foolish.
TRANSLATION
The foolish with poor fund of knowledge cannot know the transcendental nature of the forms, names and activities of the Lord, who is playing like an actor in a drama. Nor can they express such things, neither in their speculations nor their writings.
PURPORT
No one can properly describe the transcendental nature of the Absolute Truth. Therefore it is said that He is beyond the expression of mind and