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Puruṣa-sūkta Confirmed
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TEXT 18
सोऽमृतस्याभयस्येशो मर्त्यमन्नं यदत्यगात् । महिमैष ततो ब्रह्मन् पुरुषस्य दुरत्ययः ॥१८॥
so 'mṛtasyābhayasyeśo martyam annam yad atyagāt mahimaiṣa tato brahman puruṣasya duratyayaḥ
saḥ —He (the Lord);  amṛtasya —of deathlessness;  abhayasya —of fearlessness;  īsaḥ —the controller;  martyam —dying;  annam —fruitive action;  yat —one who has;  atyagāt —has transcended;  mahimā —glories;  eṣaḥ —of Him;  tataḥ —therefore;  brahman —O  brāhmaṇa  Nārada;  puruṣasya —of the Supreme Personality;  duratyayaḥ —immeasurable.
TRANSLATION
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the controller of immortality and fearlessness, and He is transcendental to death and the fruitive actions of the material world. O Nārada, O  brāhmaṇa , it is therefore difficult to measure the glories of the Supreme Person.
PURPORT
The glories of the Lord, in the transcendental seventy-five percent portion of the Lord's internal potency, are stated in the  Padma Purāṇa  ( Uttara-khaṇḍa ). It is said there that those planets in the spiritual sky, which comprises the seventy-five percent expansion of the internal potency of the Lord, are far, far greater than those planets in the total universes composed of the external potency of the Lord. In the  Caitanya-caritāmṛta , the total universes in the external potency of the Lord are compared to a bucketful of mustard seeds. One mustard seed is calculated to be a universe itself. In one of the universes, in which we are now living, the number of planets cannot be counted by human energy, so how can we think of the sum total in all the universes, which are compared to a bucketful of mustard seeds? And the planets in the spiritual sky are at least three times the number of those in the material sky. Such planets, being spiritual, are in fact transcendental to the material modes; therefore they are constituted