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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 4]
TEXT 8
नूनं भगवतो ब्रह्मन् हरेरुद्धुतकर्मणः । दुर्विभाव्यमिवाभाति कविभिश्वापि चेष्टितम् ॥ ८ ॥
nūnam bhagavato brahman harer adbhuta-karmaṇaḥ durvibhāvyam ivābhāti kavibhiś cāpi ceṣṭitam
nūnam—still insufficient; bhagavataḥ—of the Personality of Godhead; brahman—O learned brāhmaṇa; hareḥ—of the Lord; adbhuta—wonderful; karmaṇaḥ—one who acts; durvibhāvyam—inconceivable; iva—like that; ābhāti—appears; kavibhiḥ—even by the highly learned; ca—also; api—in spite of; ceṣṭitam—being endeavored for.
TRANSLATION
O learned brāhmaṇa, the transcendental activities of the Lord are all wonderful, and they appear to be inconceivable because even great endeavors by many learned scholars have still proved to be insufficient.
PURPORT
The acts of the Supreme Lord, in the creation of just this one universe, appear to be inconceivably wonderful. And there are innumerable universes, and all of them aggregated together are known as the created material world. And this part of His creation is only a fractional portion of the complete creation. The material world stands as a part only ( ekāmśena sthito jagat ). Supposing that the material world is a display of one part of His energy, the remaining three parts consist of the  Vaikuṇṭha-jagat  or spiritual world described in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as  mad-dhāma  or  sanātana-dhāma , or the eternal world. We have marked in the previous verse that He creates and again winds up the creation. This action is applicable in the material world only because the other greater part of His creation, namely the  Vaikuṇṭha  world, is neither created nor annihilated; otherwise the  Vaikuṇṭha-dhāma  would not have been called eternal. The Lord exists with  dhāma ; His eternal name, quality, pastimes, entourage and personality are all a display of His different energies and expansions. The Lord is