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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 9]
PURPORT
The Supreme Lord is eternally distinguished from the living entities by His internal potency, although He is also understood in His impersonal feature by self-realized intelligence. Devotees of the Lord, therefore, offer all respectful obeisances unto the impersonal feature of the Lord. The word  rāsa  is significant herein. The  rāsa  dance is performed by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the company of the cowherd damsels at Vṛndāvana, and the Personality of Godhead Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is also engaged in  rāsa  enjoyment with His external potency, by which He creates, maintains and dissolves the entire material manifestation. Indirectly, Lord Brahmā offers his respectful obeisances unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is factually ever engaged in  rāsa  enjoyment with the  gopīs , as confirmed in the  Vedas  in the following words:  parārdhānte so 'budhyata gopa-veśo me purastād āvirbabhūva . The distinction between the Lord and the living entity is definitely experienced when there is sufficient intelligence to understand His internal potency, as distinguished from the external potency by which He makes possible the material manifestation.
TEXT 15
यस्यावतारगुणकर्यविवम्बवानि
नामानि येऽसुविगमे विवशा गुणन्ति ।
तेऽनैकजन्मशमलं सहसैव हित्वा
संयान्त्यपाश्चतमृतं तमजं प्रपद्ये ॥१५॥
yasyāvatāra-guṇa-karma-viḍambanāni
nāmāni ye'suvigame vivaśā gṛṇanti
te 'naika-janma-śamalam sahasaiva hitvā
saṁyānty apāvṛtamṛtam tam ajam prapadye
yasya —whose;  avatāra —incarnations;  guṇa —transcendental qualities;  karma —activities;  viḍambanāni —all mysterious;  nāmāni —transcendental names;  ye —those;  asuvigame —while quitting this life;  vivaśāḥ —automatically;  gṛṇanti —invoke;  te —they;  anaika —many;  janma —births;  śamalam —accumulated sins;  sahasā —immediately;  eva —certainly;  hitvā —giving up;  saṁyānti —obtain;  apāvṛt —open;  amṛtam —immortality;  tam —Him;  ajam —the unborn;  prapadye —I take shelter.
TRANSLATION
Let me take shelter of the lotus feet of Him whose incarnations, qualities and activities are mysterious imitations of worldly affairs.