Text 29] The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone
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evaṁ kṛṣṇe bhagavati māyā-manuja īśvare vaireṇa pūta-pāpmānas tam āpur anucintayā
kīṭaḥ—the grassworm; peśaskṛtā—by a bee; ruddhaḥ—confined; kuḍyāyām—in a hole in a wall; tam—that (bee); anusmaran—thinking of; saṁrambha-bhaya-yogena—through intense fear and enmity; vindate—attains; tat—of that bee; sva-rūpatām—the same form; evam—thus; kṛṣṇe—in Kṛṣṇa; bhagavati—the Personality of Godhead; māyā-manuje—who appeared by His own energy in His eternal humanlike form; īśvare—the Supreme; vaireṇa—by enmity; pūta-pāpmānaḥ—those purified of sins; tam—Him; āpuḥ—attained; anucintayā—by thinking of.
TRANSLATION
A grassworm confined in a hole of a wall by a bee always thinks of the bee in fear and enmity and later becomes a bee simply because of such remembrance. Similarly, if the conditioned souls somehow or other think of Kṛṣṇa, who is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, they will become free from their sins. Whether thinking of Him as their worshipable Lord or an enemy, because of constantly thinking of Him they will regain their spiritual bodies.
PURPORT
In  Bhagavad-gītā  (4.10) the Lord says:
vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhā man-mayā mām upāśritāḥ bahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ
“Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me—and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me.” There are two ways of constantly thinking of Kṛṣṇa—as a