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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 9]
anyone's help. He is spread everywhere ( mayā tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-mūrtinā ). Nevertheless, He is not present everywhere in His spiritual form. According to the Māyāvāda philosophy, the Supreme Truth, being all-pervasive, does not need a transcendental form. The Māyāvādis suppose that since His form is distributed everywhere, He has no form. This is untrue. The Lord keeps His transcendental form, and at the same time He extends everywhere, in every nook and corner of the material creation.
TEXT 35
अथ तत्र भवान् किं देवदत्तवदिह गुणविसर्गपतितः पारतन्त्र्येण स्वकृतकुशला- कुशलं फलमुपाददात्याहोस्विदात्माराम उपशमशीलः समञ्जसदर्शन उदास्त इति ह वाव न विदामः ॥ ३५ ॥
atha tatra bhavān kim devadattavad iha guṇa-visarga-patitaḥ pāratantryeṇa sva-kṛta-kuśalākuśalam phalam upādadāty āhosvid ātmārāma upaśama-śilaḥ samañjasa-darśana udāsta iti ha vāva na vidāmaḥ.
atha—therefore; tatra—in that; bhavān—Your Lordship; kim—   whether; deva-datta-vat—like an ordinary human being, forced by the   fruits of his activities; iha—in this material world; guṇa-visarga-   patitaḥ—fallen in a material body impelled by the modes of material   nature; pāratantryeṇa—by dependence on the conditions of time, space,   activity and nature; sva-kṛta—executed by oneself; kuśala—auspicious;   akuśalam—inauspicious; phalam—results of action; upādadāti—ac-   cepts; āhosvit—or; ātmārāmaḥ—completely self-satisfied; upaśama-   śilaḥ—self-controlled in nature; samañjasa-darśanaḥ—not deprived of   full spiritual potencies; udāste—remains neutral as the witness; iti—   thus; ha vāva—certainly; na vidāmaḥ—we do not understand.
TRANSLATION
These are our inquiries. The ordinary conditioned soul is sub-   ject to the material laws, and he thus receives the fruits of his ac-   tions. Does Your Lordship, like an ordinary human being, exist