Text 33]
Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
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Govardhana Hill by a seven-year-old boy may be unbelievable for the faithless, but for the devotees it is absolutely believable. The devotee believes in the almighty potency of the Lord, while the faithless say that the Lord is almighty but do not believe it. Such men with a poor fund of knowledge do not know that the Lord is the Lord eternally, and that one cannot become the Lord by meditation for millions of years nor by mental speculation for billions of years.
The impersonal interpretation of the mundane wranglers is completely refuted in this verse because it is clearly stated here that the Supreme Lord has His qualities, form, pastimes, and everything that a person has. All these descriptions of the transcendental nature of the Personality of Godhead are factual realizations by the devotee of the Lord, and by the causeless mercy of the Lord they become revealed to His pure devotee, and to no one else.
TEXT 33
अहमेवासमेवाग्रे नान्यद् यत् सदसत् परम् । पश्चादहं यदेतच्च योऽवशिष्येत सोऽस्म्यहम् ॥३३॥
aham evāsam evāgre nānyad yat sad-asat param paścād aham yad etac ca yo'vaśiṣyeta so'smy aham
aham —I, the Personality of Godhead;  eva —certainly;  āsam —existed;  eva —only;  agre —before the creation;  na —never;  anyat —anything else;  yat —all those;  sat —the effect;  asat —the cause;  param —the supreme;  paścāt —at the end;  aham —I, the Personality of Godhead;  yat —all these;  etat —creation;  ca —also;  yah —everything;  avaśiṣyeta —remains;  sah —that;  asmi —I am;  aham —I, the Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
Brahmā, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of Godhead.