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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 4, Ch. 6 ]
the universal form of the Lord. So long as they are engaged in the service of the complete whole, their position is secure, otherwise they fall down from their respective positions and become degraded.
TEXT 45
त्वं कर्मणां मङ्गल मङ्गलानां
कर्तुः स्वलोकं तनुषे स्वः परं वा ।
अमङ्गलानां च तमिस्रमुल्बणं
विपर्ययः केन तदेव कस्यचित् ॥४५॥
tvam karmaṇām maṅgala maṅgalāṇām kartuḥ sva-lokam tanuṣe svaḥ param vā amaṅgalāṇām ca tamisram ulbaṇam viparyayaḥ kena tadeva kasyacit
tvam —your lordship;  karmaṇām —of the prescribed duties;  maṅgala —O most auspicious;  maṅgalāṇām —of the auspicious;  kartuḥ —of the performer;  sva-lokam —respective higher planetary systems;  tanuṣe —expand;  svaḥ —heavenly planets;  param —transcendental world;  vā —or;  amaṅgalāṇām —of the inauspicious;  ca —and;  tamisram —the name of a particular hell;  ulbaṇam —ghastly;  viparyayaḥ —the opposite;  kena —why;  tat eva —certainly that;  kasyacit —for someone.
TRANSLATION
O most auspicious lord, you have destined the heavenly planets, the spiritual Vaikuṇṭha planets, or the impersonal Brahman sphere as the respective positions of the performers of auspicious activities. Similarly, for others, who are miscreants, you have destined different kinds of hells which are horrible and ghastly. Yet sometimes it is found that their destinations are just the opposite. It is very difficult to ascertain the cause of this.
PURPORT
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is called the supreme will. By the supreme will everything is happening. It is said, therefore, that not a blade of grass moves without the supreme will. Generally it is prescribed that performers of pious activities are promoted to the higher planetary systems, devotees are promoted to the Vaikuṇṭhas or spiritual worlds, and impersonal speculators are promoted to the impersonal Brahman effulgence; but it sometimes so happens that a miscreant like Ajāmila is immediately promoted to the Vaikuṇṭha-loka simply by chanting the name of Nārāyaṇa.