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Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
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within the spider. The spider is covered within the web. If an insignificant spider is so powerful as to act according to its will, why can't the Supreme Being act by His supreme will in the creation, maintenance and destruction of the cosmic manifestations? By the grace of the Lord, a devotee like Brahmā, or one in his chain of discipline succession, can understand the almighty Personality of Godhead eternally engaged in His transcendental pastimes in the region of different energies.
TEXT 29
भगवच्छिक्षितमहं करवाणि ह्यतन्द्रितः । नेहमानः प्रजासर्गं बध्येयं यदनुग्रहात् ॥२९॥
bhagavac-chikṣitam aham karavāṇi hy atandritaḥ nehamānaḥ prajā-sargam badhyeyam yad-anugrahāt
bhagavat —by the Personality of Godhead;  śikṣitam —taught by;  aham —myself;  karavāṇi —be acting;  hi —certainly;  atandritaḥ —instrumental;  na —never;  ihamānaḥ —although acting;  prajā-sargam —generation of the living entities;  badhyeyam —be conditioned;  yat —as a matter of fact;  anugrahāt —by the mercy of.
TRANSLATION
Please tell me so that I may be taught in the matter by the instruction of the Personality of Godhead, and thus I may act instrumentally to generate living entities, without being conditioned by such activities.
PURPORT
Brahmājī does not want to become a speculator dependent on the strength of his personal knowledge and conditioned to material bondage. Everyone should know in clear consciousness that one is, in the execution of all activities, an instrument. A conditioned soul is instrumental in the hands of the external energy,  guṇamayī māyā , or the illusory energy of the Lord, and in the liberated stage the living entity is instrumental to the will