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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 13]
rectified by the Lord when He eliminates them from the world and establishes a rule of  devatās  like the Pāṇḍavas. His designation as  kāla  in disguise is significant. He is not at all dangerous, but He is the transcendental form of eternity, knowledge and bliss. For the devotees His factual form is disclosed, and for the nondevotees He appears like  kāla-rūpa  which is causal form. This causal form of the Lord is not at all pleasing to the  asuras , and therefore they think of the Lord as formless in order to feel secure that they will not be vanquished by the Lord.
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निष्पादितं देवकृत्यमवशेषं प्रतीक्षते । तात्रद् युयमवेक्षञ्चं भवेद् यात्रदिहेश्वरः ॥५०॥
niṣpāditam deva-kṛtyam avaśeṣam pratīkṣate tāvad yūyam avekṣadhvam bhaved yāvad iheśvaraḥ
niṣpāditam —performed;  deva-kṛtyam —what was to be done on behalf of the demigods;  avaśeṣam —the rest;  pratīkṣate —being awaited;  tāvat —up to that time;  yūyam —all of you Pāṇḍavas;  avekṣadhvam —observe and wait;  bhavet —may;  yāvat —as long as;  iha —in this world;  īśvaraḥ —the Supreme Lord.
TRANSLATION
The Lord has already performed His duties to help the demigods, and He is awaiting the rest. You Pāṇḍavas may wait as long as the Lord is here on earth.
PURPORT
The Lord descends from His abode (Kṛṣṇaloka), the topmost planet in the spiritual sky, in order to help the demigod administrators of this material world when they are greatly vexed by the  asuras , who are not only envious of the Lord but also of His devotees. As referred to above, the conditioned living beings contact material association by their own choice, dictated by a strong desire to lord it over the resources of the material world and become imitation lords of all they survey. Everyone is trying to become an imitation God; there is keen competition amongst such imitation gods, and such competitors are generally known as  asuras . When there are too many  asuras  in the world, then it becomes a hell for those who are devotees of the Lord. Due to the growth of the  asuras , the mass of people who are generally devoted to the Lord by nature and the