Adi-lila, Chapter 7 119

PURPORT

The jiva, or living entity, is a spiritual spark who is part of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Unfortunately, he thinks the body to be the self, and that
misunderstanding is called vivarta, or acceptance of untruth to be truth. The body
is not the self, but animals and foolish people think that it is. Vivarta (illusion)
does not, however, denote a change in the identity of the spirit soul; it is the mis-
conception that the body is the self that is an illusion. Similarly, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead does not change when His external energy, consisting of
the eight gross and subtle material elements listed in Bhagavad-gita (bhumir Gpo
‘nalo vayuh, etc.), acts and reacts in different phases.

TEXT 124

afiia-afeqe Gedaq|
Sooty Ham 1a MATT W928 Hl

avicintya-Sakti-yuRta $ri-bhagavan
icchaya jagad-rupe paya parinama

SYNONYMS

avicintya—inconceivable; sakti—potency; yukta—possessed of; sri—the affluent;
bhagavan—Personality of Godhead; icchaya—by His wish; jagat-rupe—in the form of
the cosmic manifestation; paya—becomes; parinama—transformed by His energy.

TRANSLATION

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is opulent in all respects. Therefore by
His inconceivable energies He has transformed the material cosmic manifestation.

TEXT 125

SiH afoarey sn afasis |
enss foarafe wice Gare ca ¥fA nsec tl

tathapi acintya-saktye haya avikari
prakrta cintamani tahe drstanta ye dhari

SYNONYMS

tathapi—yet; acintya-Saktye—by inconceivable potency; haya—remains; avikari—
without change; prakrta—material; cintamani—touchstone; tahe—in that respect;
drstanta—example; ye—which; dhari—we accept.
