Text 30] Divinity and Divine Service 127
prison, he is not bound by the laws of the prison house. The king is there-
fore always transcendental to the laws of the prison house, as the Lord is
always transcendental to the laws of the material world.
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sa evedam sasarjagre
bhagavan atma-mayaya
sad-asad-riipayd casau
gunamayyaguno vibhuh

sah—that; eva—certainly; idam—this; sasarja—created; agre—before;
bhagavan—the Personality of Godhead; atma-mayaya—by His personal
potency; sat—the cause; asat—the effect; rupaya—by forms; ca—and; asau—
the same Lord; gunamayya—in the modes of material nature; agunah—
transcendental; vibhuh—the Absolute.

TRANSLATION
In the beginning of the material creation, the Absolute Lord in His
transcendental position created the energies of cause and effect by His own
internal energy.
PURPORT

The position of the Lord is always transcendental because the causal
and effectual energies required for the creation of the material world
were also created by Him. He is, therefore, unaffected by the qualities of
the material modes. His existence, form, activities and paraphernalia all
existed before the material creation.* He ts all spiritual and has nothing

*Sripada Sankaracarya, the head of the Mayavada school, accepts this transcenden-
tal position of Lord Krsna in his commentation on Bhagavad-gita.
