598
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 10]
when the Lord appears as a fish or hog, He is neither of them in the material conception. It is His causeless mercy that He appears in every society or species of life, but He is never to be considered one of them. Conceptions of the material world such as good and bad, lower and upper, important and insignificant are estimations of the material energy, and the Supreme Lord is transcendental to all such conceptions. The word  param̄ bhāvam , or transcendental nature, can never be compared with the material conception. We should not forget that the potencies of the Almighty Lord are always the same and do not decrease because the Lord assumes the form of a lower animal. There is no difference between Lord Śrī Rāma, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa or His incarnations of fish and hogs. He is all-pervading and simultaneously localized at any and every place. But the foolish person with a poor fund of knowledge, for want of that  param̄ bhāvam  of the Lord, cannot understand how the Supreme Lord can take the form of a man or a fish. Everything is compared to its own standard of knowledge, as the frog in the well considers the sea to be one like the well. The frog in the well cannot even think of the sea, and when such a frog is informed of the greatness of the sea it takes the conception of the sea as a little greater than the well. As such, one who is foolish in the transcendental science of the Lord will find it difficult to understand how Lord Viṣṇu can equally manifest Himself in every society of living entities.
TEXT 43
ततः कालाग्निरुद्रात्मा यत्सृष्टमिदमात्मनः । संनियच्छति तत् काले घनानीकमिवानितः ॥४३॥
tataḥ kālāgni-rudrātmā   yat sṛṣṭam idam ātmanaḥ   sanniyacchati tat kāle   ghanānīkam ivānilaḥ
tataḥ —thereafter at the end;  kāla —destruction;  agni —fire;  rudra-ātmā —in the form of Rudra;  yat —whatever;  sṛṣṭam —created;  idam —all these;  ātmanaḥ —of His own;  sam —completely;  niyacchati —annihilates;  tat kāle —at the end of the millennium;  ghana-anīkam —bunches of clouds;  iva —like that of;  anilaḥ —air.