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Explanation of Devotional Service
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Lord Śiva. Lord Viṣṇu is in charge of the mode of goodness, Lord Brahmā is in charge of the mode of passion, and Lord Śiva is in charge of the mode of ignorance. Similarly, there are many other demigods in charge of the air department, the water department, the cloud department, etc. Just as the government has many different departments, so, within this material world, the government of the Supreme Lord has many departments, and all these departments function in proper order out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Demigods are undoubtedly controlling all matter, animate and inanimate, within the universe, but above them the supreme controller is the Personality of Godhead. Therefore in the  Brahma-saṁhitā  it is said,  īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ . Undoubtedly there are many controllers in the departmental management of this universe, but the supreme controller is Kṛṣṇa.
There are two kinds of dissolutions. One kind of dissolution takes place when Brahmā goes to sleep during his night, and the final dissolution takes place when Brahmā dies. As long as Brahmā does not die, creation, maintenance and destruction are actuated by different demigods under the superintendence of the Supreme Lord.
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सोऽनन्तोऽन्तकरः कालोऽनादिरादिकृदव्ययः।
जनं जनेन जनयन्मारयन्मृत्युनान्तकम् ॥४५॥
so 'nanto 'ntakaraḥ kālo 'nādir ādikṛd avyayaḥ janam janena janayan mārayan mṛtyunāntakam
saḥ —that;  anantaḥ —endless;  anta-karaḥ —destroyer;  kālaḥ —time;  anādiḥ —without beginning;  ādi-kṛt —the creator;  avyayaḥ —not liable to change;  janam —persons;  janena —by persons;  janayan —creating;  mārayan —destroying;  mṛtyunā —by death;  anta-kam —the lord of death.
TRANSLATION
The eternal time factor has no beginning and no end. It is the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the maker of the criminal world. It brings about the end of the phenomenal world, it carries on the work of creation by bringing one individual into existence from another,