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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 9]
tions of the Lord. In other words, there is nothing but the Lord, and still the Lord is different from all such manifestive activities. How it is so will be explained later on.
TEXT 28
क्रीडस्यमोघसङ्कल्प ऊर्णनाभिर्यथोर्णुते । तथा तद्विषयां धेहि मनीषां मयि माधव ॥२८॥
krīḍasy amogha-saṅkalpa ūrṇanābhir yathorṇute tathā tad-viṣayām dhehi manīṣām mayi mādhava
krīḍasi —as You do play;  amogha —infallible;  saṅkalpa —determination;  ūrṇābhiḥ —the spider;  yathā —as much as;  ūrṇute —covers;  tathā —so and so;  tat-viṣayām —in the subject of all those;  dhehi —do let me know;  manīṣām —philosophically;  mayi —unto me;  mādhava —O master of all energies.
TRANSLATION
O master of all energies, please tell me philosophically all about them. You play like the spider who covers itself by its own energy, and Your determination is infallible.
PURPORT
By the inconceivable energy of the Lord, every creative element has its own potencies, known as the potency of the element, potency of knowledge and potency of different actions and reactions. By a combination of such potential energies of the Lord there is the manifestation of creation, maintenance and annihilation in due course of time and by different agents like Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara. Brahmā creates, Viṣṇu maintains, and Lord Śiva destroys. But all such agents and creative energies are emanations from the Lord, and as such there is nothing except the Lord, or the one supreme source of different diversities. The exact example is the spider and spider's web. The web is created by the spider, and it is maintained by the spider, and as soon as it likes, the whole thing is wound up