120 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 2

TEXT 26

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ARH: MeN Aled TARA: REI

mumuksavo ghora-ripan
hitva bhiita-patin atha

narayana-kalah santa
bhajanti hy anasiiyavah

mumuksavah— persons desiring liberation; ghora—horrible, ghastly; rupan
—forms like that; hitvd—rejecting; bhiita-patin—demigods; atha—for this
reason; nadrayana—the Personality of Godhead; kalah—plenary portions;
santah—all-blissful; bhajanti—do worship; hi—certainly; anasiityavah—non-
envious.

TRANSLATION

Those who are serious about liberation are certainly nonenvious, and
they respect all. Yet they reject the horrible and ghastly forms of the
demigods and worship only the all-blissful forms and plenary portions of
Lord Visnu.

PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna, who is the original
person of the Visnu categories, expands Himself in two different categories,
namely integrated plenary portions and separated parts and parcels. The
separated parts and parcels are the servitors, and the integrated plenary
portions of Visnu-tattvas are the worshipful objects of service.

All demigods who are empowered by the Supreme Lord are also
separated parts and parcels. They do not belong to the categories of Visnu-
tattva. The Visnu-tattvas are equally powerful living beings like the original
form of the Personality of Godhead, and they display only different
categories of power in consideration of different times and circumstances.
The separated parts and parcels are powerful by limitation. They do not
have unlimited power like the Visnu-tattvas. Therefore, the Visnu-tattvas,
or the plenary portions of Narayana, the Personality of Godhead, are never
to be classified in the same categories with the parts and parcels. If anyone
does so he becomes at once an offender by the name pasandi. In the age of
Kali many foolish persons commit such unlawful offenses and equalize the
two categories.
