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The Lord Incarnates as Mohinī-mūrti
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evam surāsura-gaṇāḥ sama-deśa-kāla- hetv-artha-karma-matayo 'pi phale vikalpāḥ tatrāmṛtam sura-gaṇāḥ phalam añjasāpur yat-pāda-paṅkaja-rajaḥ-śrayaṇān na daityāḥ
evam—thus; sura—the demigods; asura-gaṇāḥ—and the demons; sama—equal; deśa—place; kāla—time; hetu—cause; artha—objective; karma—activities; matayaḥ—ambition; api—although one; phale—in the result; vikalpāḥ—not equal; tatra—thereupon; amṛtam—nectar; sura-gaṇāḥ—the demigods; phalam—the result; añjasā—easily, totally or directly; āpuḥ—achieved; yat—because of; pāda-paṅkaja—of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; rajaḥ—of the saffron dust; śrayaṇāt—because of receiving benedictions or taking shelter; na—not; daityāḥ—the demons.
TRANSLATION
The place, the time, the cause, the purpose, the activity and the ambition were all the same for both the demigods and the demons, but the demigods achieved one result and the demons another. Because the demigods are always under the shelter of the dust of the Lord's lotus feet, they could very easily drink the nectar and get its result. The demons, however, not having sought shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord, were unable to achieve the result they desired.
PURPORT
In  Bhagavad-gītā  (4.11) it is said,  ye yathā mām prapadyante tāms tathaiva bhajāmy aham : the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme judge who rewards or punishes different persons according to their surrender unto His lotus feet. Therefore it can actually be seen that although  karmīs  and  bhaktas  may work in the same place, at the same time, with the same energy and with the same ambition, they achieve different results. The  karmīs  transmigrate through different bodies in the cycle of birth and death, sometimes going upward and sometimes downward, thus suffering the results of their actions in the  karma-cakra , the cycle of birth and death. The devotees, however, because of fully surrendering at the lotus feet of the Lord, are never baffled in their attempts. Although externally they work almost like the  karmīs , the