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Scheduled Incarnations with Specific Functions
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TEXT 24
यस्मा अदादुदधिरूढभयाङ्गवेपो 
  मार्गं सपद्यरिपुरं हरवद् दिधक्षोः । 
  दूरे सुहन्मथितरोषसुशोणदृष्ट्या 
  तातप्यमानमकरोरगनक्रचक्रः ॥२४॥
yasmā adād udadhi rūḍha-bhayānga-vepo 
  mārgaṁ sapady ari-puraṁ haravad didhakṣoḥ 
  dūre suhṛn-mathita-roṣa-suśoṇa-dṛṣṭyā 
  tātapyamāna-makaroraga-nakra-cakraḥ
yasmai—unto whom; adāt—gave; udadhiḥ—the great Indian Ocean; rūḍha-bhaya—affected by fear; anga-vepaḥ—bodily trembling; mārgam—way; sapadi—quickly; ari-puram—the city of the enemy; haravat—like that of Hara (Mahādeva); didhakṣoḥ—desiring to burn into ashes; dūre—at a long distance; su-hṛt—intimate friend; mathita—being aggrieved by; roṣa—in anger; su-śoṇa—red-hot; dṛṣṭyā—by such a glance; tātapyamāna—burning in heat; makara—sharks; uraga—snakes; nakra—crocodiles; cakraḥ—circle.
TRANSLATION
The Personality of Godhead Rāmacandra, being aggrieved for His distant intimate friend [Sītā], glanced over the city of the enemy Rāvaṇa with red-hot eyes like those of Hara [who wanted to burn the kingdom of heaven]. The great ocean, trembling in fear, gave Him His way because its family members, the aquatics like the sharks, snakes and crocodiles, were being burnt by the heat of the angry red-hot eyes of the Lord.
PURPORT
The Personality of Godhead has every sentiment of a sentient being, like all other living beings, because He is the chief and original living entity, the supreme source of all other living beings. He is the  nitya , or the chief eternal amongst all other eternals. He is the chief one, and all others are the dependent many. The many eternals are supported by the one eternal, and thus both the eternals are qualitatively one. Due to such oneness, both the eternals have constitutionally a complete range of sentiments, but the difference is that the sentiments of the chief eternal are different in