176 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 3
the electrical energy for both heating and cooling by adjustment only.
Similarly, the external energy, which now bewilders the living being into
continuation of birth and death, is turned into internal potency by the
will of the Lord to lead the living being to eternal life. When a living being
is thus graced by the Lord, he is placed in his proper constitutional position
to enjoy eternal spiritual life.
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AS ~ A
THAT HH RTA FeTeThy TeA: UAW’
evam janmani karmani
hy akartur ajanasya ca
varnayanti sma kavayo
veda-guhyani hrt-pateh
evam—thus; janmani—birth; karmani—activities; hi—certainly; akartuh—
of the inactive; ajanasya—of the unborn; ca—and; varnayanti— describe;
sma—in the past; kavayah—the learned; veda-guhyani—undiscoverable by
the Vedas; hrt-pateh—of the Lord of the heart.
TRANSLATION
Thus learned men describe the births and activities of the unborn and
inactive, which is undiscoverable even in the Vedic literatures. He is the
Lord of the heart.
PURPORT
Both the Lord and the living entities are essentially all spiritual. There-
fore both of them are eternal, and neither of them has birth and death.
The difference is that the so-called births and disappearances of the
Lord are unlike those of the living beings. The living beings who take
birth and then again accept death are bound by the laws of material
nature. But the so-called appearance and disappearance of the Lord
are not actions of material nature, but are demonstrations of the internal
potency of the Lord. They are described by the great sages for the
purpose of self-realization. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita by the Lord
that His so-called birth in the material world and His activities are all
transcendental. And simply by meditation on such activities one can attain
realization of Brahman and thus become liberated from material bondage.
In the Srutis it is said that the birthless appears to take birth. The Supreme
