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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 1]
not subject to the reactions of material nature. In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said:
na mām karmāṇi limpanti na me karma-phale spṛhā iti mām yo 'bhijānāti karmabhir na sa baddhyate  (Bg. 4.14)
The law of  karma  enacted by the Supreme Lord for the living entities cannot be applicable to Him, nor has the Lord any desire to improve Himself by activities like those of ordinary living beings. Ordinary living beings work for the improvement of their conditional lives. But the Lord is already full of all opulence, all strength, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation. Why should He desire improvement? No one can excel Him in any opulence, and therefore the desire for improvement is absolutely useless for Him. One should always discriminate between the activities of the Lord and those of ordinary living beings. Thus one may come to the right conclusion regarding the Lord's transcendental position. One who can come to the conclusion of the Lord's transcendence can become a devotee of the Lord and can at once be free from all reactions of past deeds. It is said,  karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām : The Lord minimizes or nullifies the reactionary influence of the devotees' past deeds. (B.s. 5:54)
The activities of the Lord are to be accepted and relished by all living entities. His activities are to attract the ordinary man towards the Lord. The Lord always acts in favor of the devotees, and therefore ordinary men who are fruitive actors or seekers of salvation may be attracted to the Lord when He acts as protector of the devotees. The fruitive actors can attain their goals by devotional service, and the salvationists can also attain their goal in life by devotional service to the Lord. The devotees neither want the fruitive results of their work nor do they want any kind of salvation. They relish the glorious superhuman activities of the Lord, such as His lifting Govardhana Hill, His killing the demon Pūtanā in infancy, etc. His activities are enacted to attract all kinds of men— karmīs ,  jñānīs  and  bhaktas . Because He is transcendental to all laws of  karma , there is no possibility of His accepting a form of  māyā  as is forced on the ordinary living entities who are bound by the actions and reactions of their own deeds.
The secondary purpose of His appearance is to annihilate the upstart  asuras  and to stop the nonsense of atheistic propaganda by less intelligent persons. By the Lord's causeless mercy, the  asuras  who are killed personally by the Personality of Godhead get salvation. The meaningful