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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 10]
sthitir vaikuṇṭha-vijayaḥ poṣaṇam tad-anugrahaḥ manvantarāṇi sad-dharma ūtayaḥ karma-vāsanāḥ
sthitiḥ—right situation; vaikuṇṭha-vijayaḥ—victory of the Lord of Vaikuṇṭha; poṣaṇam—maintenance; tat-anugrahaḥ—His causeless mercy; manvantarāṇi—reign of the Manus; sat-dharmaḥ—perfect occupational duty; ūtayaḥ—impetus to work; karma-vāsanāḥ—desire for fruitive work.
TRANSLATION
The right situation for the living entities is to obey the laws of the Lord and thus be in perfect peace of mind under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Manus and their laws are meant to give right direction in life. The impetus of activity is the desire for fruitive work.
PURPORT
This material world is created, maintained for some time, and again annihilated by the will of the Lord. The ingredients for creation and the subordinate creator, Brahmā, are first created by Lord Viṣṇu in His first and second incarnations. The first  Puruṣa  incarnation is Mahā-Viṣṇu, and the second  Puruṣa  incarnation is the Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, from whom Brahmā is created. The third  Puruṣa avatāra  is the Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who lives as the Supersoul of everything in the universe and maintains the creation generated by Brahmā. Śiva is one of the many sons of Brahmā, and he annihilates the creation. Therefore the original creator of the universe is Viṣṇu, and He is also maintainer of the created beings by His causeless mercy. As such, it is the duty of all conditioned souls to acknowledge the victory of the Lord and thus become pure devotees and live peacefully in this world where miseries and dangers of life are always in existence. The conditioned souls who take this material creation as the place for satisfaction of the senses, and thus are illusioned by the external energy of Viṣṇu, remain again to be subjected to laws of material nature, creation and destruction.
In the  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said that beginning from the topmost planet of this universe down to the lowest planet, the Pātālaloka, all are destructible, and the conditioned souls may travel in space either by good or bad work or by the modern spacecraft, but they are sure to die everywhere,