346 Srimad-Bhagavatam {Canto 1, Ch. 7

the heart; vidhatse—execute; svena—by Your own; viryena—influence;
sreyah—ultimate good; dharmadi—four principles of liberation; laksanam—
characterized by.

TRANSLATION

And yet, though You are beyond the purview of the material energy,
You execute the four principles of liberation characterized by religion and
so on for the ultimate good of the conditioned souls.

PURPORT

The Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna out of His causeless mercy
descends on the manifested world without being influenced by the material
modes of nature. He is eternally beyond the material manifestations. He
descends out of His causeless mercy only to reclaim the fallen souls who
are captivated by the illusory energy. They are attacked by the material
energy, and they want to enjoy her under false pretexts, although in
essence the living entity is unable to enjoy. He is eternally the servitor of
the Lord, and when he forgets this position he thinks of enjoying the
material world, but factually he is in illusion. The Lord descends to eradi-
cate this false sense of enjoyment and thus reclaim conditioned souls back
to Godhead. That is the all-merciful nature of the Lord for the fallen souls.

TEXT 25

qa AAR BAT ARATE |
Aal WAATAAANAT ATA AIST URI

tathayam cavataras te
bhuvo bhara-jihirsaya

svanam cananya-bhavanam
anudhyanaya casakrt

tatha—thus; ayam—this; ca—and; avatdrah—incarnation; te—Your;
bhuvah—of the material world; bhara—burden; jihirsaya—for removing;
svanam—of the friends; ca ananya-bhavanam—and of the exclusive devo-
tees; anudhyanaya—for remembering repeatedly; ca—and; asakrt—fully
satisfied.
