32 Sri Isopanisad
devotee. Lord Nrsimha appeared from within the pillar not
at the order of the atheist king, but by the wish of the devotee
Prahlada. An atheist cannot order the Lord to appear, but
to show mercy to His devotee the Lord can appear anywhere
and everywhere.
The Bhagavad-gitad confirms this, in the statement that the
Lord appears to vanquish the unbelievers and to protect the
believers. To vanquish an unbeliever, of course, the Lord has
sufficient energies and agents who can do the work, but to favor
the devotee is a pleasing task for Him, and therefore He descends
as an incarnation. He does so only to favor His devotees, then,
and not for any other purpose.
In the Brahma-samhitd it is said that Govinda, the Primeval
Lord, enters everything by His plenary portion. He enters the
universe as well as the atom of the universe. Ie is outside in the
Virata Form, and Ile is within as Antaryami. As Antaryami Ile
| is witness of everything that we are doing, and Ile gives us the
result of our actions as karma-phala. We ourselves may forget
what we have done in previous lives, but because the Lord is
the witness of our actions, the result of our actions is always
there, and we have to undergo the reactions all the same.
in fact there is nothing except God within and without.
Everything is manifested of His different energies, like the heat
| and light of fire, which means there is a oneness among the
| diverse energies. In spite of this oneness, however, the Lord
enjoys in His Personal Form all that is enjoyable to the little
senses of the little part and parcel living entities.
vw 3. 2a
}
1 MANTRA SIX
}
|
| Gy aah | qaraaaTeaTa
AY A AT a fragea tl & UI
|
{
