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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 30]
TEXT 24
नमो विशुद्धसत्त्वाय हरये हरिमेधसे । वासुदेवाय कृष्णाय प्रभवे सर्वसात्वताम् ॥२४॥
namo viśuddha-sattvāya haraye hari-medhase vāsudevāya kṛṣṇāya prabhave sarva-sātvatām
namaḥ —obeisances;  viśuddha-sattvāya —unto You, whose existence is free from all material influence;  haraye —who takes away all miserable conditions of devotees;  hari-medhase —whose brain works only for the deliverance of the conditioned soul;  vāsudevāya —the all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead;  kṛṣṇāya —unto Kṛṣṇa;  prabhave —who increases the influence;  sarva-sātvatām —of all kinds of devotees.
TRANSLATION
Dear Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You because Your existence is completely independent of all material influences. Your Lordship always takes away the devotee's miserable conditions, for Your brain plans how to do so. You live everywhere as Paramātmā; therefore You are known as Vāsudeva. You also accept Vasudeva as Your father, and You are celebrated by the name of Kṛṣṇa. You are so kind that You always increase the influence of all kinds of devotees.
PURPORT
In the previous verse it has been said ( gṛhīta-māyā-guṇa-vigrahāya ) that the Lord accepts three kinds of bodies (Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Śiva) for the purposes of creating, maintaining and annihilating the cosmic manifestation. The three predominating deities of the material universe (Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva) are called  guṇa-avatāras . There are many kinds of incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the first incarnations within this material world are Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara (Śiva). Out of these three, Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva accept material bodies, but Lord Viṣṇu does not accept a material body. Lord Viṣṇu is therefore known as  viśuddha-sattva . His existence is completely free from the contamination of the material modes of nature. One should therefore not think that Lord Viṣṇu is in the same category with Lord Brahmā and Śiva. The  śāstras  forbid us to think in this way.