178 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 3
called the amogha-lilah, which indicates that there is nothing lamentable
in His creation. Those who create disturbance in His creation are them-
selves disturbed. He is transcendental to all material afflictions because
He is full with all six opulences, namely wealth, power, fame, beauty,
knowledge and renunciation, and thus He is the master of the senses. He
creates these manifested universes in order to reclaim the living beings who
are within them suffering threefold miseries, maintains them, and in due
course annihilates them without being the least affected by such actions.
He is connected with this material creation very superficially, as one
smells odor without being connected with the odorous article. Non-godly
elements therefore can never approach Him, despite all endeavours.
TEXT 37
7 WR apafaga Yd-
waft aad: Fa oat |
aati warfty aateathe:
RAN «acai HaTA: 11M!
na casya kascin nipunena dhatur
avaiti jantuh kumanisa itih
namani ripani mano-vacobhih
santanvato natacaryam ivajnah
na—not; ca—and; esya—of Him; kascit— anyone; nipunena— by dexterity;
dhatuh—of the creator; avaiti-can know; jantuh—the living being;
kumanisah—with a poor fund of knowledge; iitih—activities of the Lord;
namani—His names; ruépani—His forms; mano-vacobhih—by dint of mental
speculation or deliverance of speeches; santanvatah—displaying; natacaryam
—a dramatic action; iva—like; ajrah—the foolish.
TRANSLATION
The foolish with poor fund of knowledge cannot know the transcen-
dental nature of the forms, names and activities of the Lord, who is playing
like an actor in a drama. Nor can they express such things, neither in their
speculations nor their writings.
PURPORT
No one can properly describe the transcendental nature of the Absolute
Truth. Therefore it is said that He is beyond the expression of mind and
