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Brahma's Prayers for Creative Energy
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the demigods, to perform Your transcendental pastimes. You are not affected by material contamination. You come just to fulfill the obligations of Your own principles of religion, and therefore, O Supreme Personality, I offer my obeisances unto You for manifesting such different forms.
PURPORT
The Lord's incarnations in different species of life are all transcendental. He appears as a human being in His incarnations of Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, etc., but He is not a human being. Anyone who mistakes Him for an ordinary human being is certainly not very intelligent, as confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 9.11):  avajānanti mām mūḍhā mānuṣīm tanum āśritam . The same principle is applicable when He appears as the hog or fish incarnations. They are transcendental forms of the Lord and are manifested under certain necessities of His own pleasure and pastimes. Such manifestations of the transcendental forms of the Lord are accepted by Him mostly to enliven His devotees. All His incarnations are manifested whenever there is a need to deliver His devotees and maintain His own principles.
TEXT 20
योऽविद्ययानुपहतोऽपि दशार्धवृत्त्या
निद्रामुवाह जठरीकृतलोकयात्रः ।
अन्तर्जलेऽहिकशिपुस्पशानुकूलां
भीमोर्मिमालिनि जनस्य सुखं विवृण्वन् ॥२०॥
yo 'vidyayānupahato 'pi daśārdha-vṛttyā nidrām uvāha jaṭharī-kṛta-loka-yātraḥ antar-jale 'hikaśipu sparśānukūlām bhīmormi-mālini janasya sukham vivṛṇvan
yaḥ—one; avidyayā—influenced by nescience; anupahataḥ—without being affected; api—in spite of; daśārdha—five; vṛttyā—interaction; nidrām—sleep; uvāha—accepted; jatharī—within the abdomen; kṛta—doing so; loka-yātraḥ—maintenance of the different entities; antaḥ-jale—within the water of devastation; ahi-kaśipu—on the snake bed; sparśa-anukūlām—happy for the touch; bhīma-ūrmi—violent waves; mālini—chain of; janasya—of the intelligent person; sukham—happiness; vivṛṇvan—showing.