Text 11] Birth of Emperor Pariksit 619

TEXT 11

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vidhiiya tad ameyatma
bhagavan dharmagub vibhuh

misato dasamdasasya
tatraivantardadhe harih

vidhiya—having completely washed off; tat—that; ameydtma—the all-
pervading Supersoul; bhagavan—the Personality of Godhead; dharmagup—
the protector of righteousness; vibhuh—the Supreme; misatah—while
observing; dasamasasya—olt one who is dressed by all directions: latra eva—
then and there; antah—out of sight; dadhe—became; harih—the Lord.

TRANSLATION

While thus being observed by the child, the Supreme Lord Personality
of Godhead, the Supersoul of everyone and the protector of the righteous,
who stretches in all directions and who is unlimited by time and space,
disappeared at once.

PURPORT

Child Pariksit was not observing a living being who is limited by time
and space. There is a gulf of difference between the Lord and the individu-
al living being. The Lord is mentioned herein as the supreme living being
unlimited by time and space. Every living being is limited by time and
space. Even though a living being is qualitatively one with the Lord, still
quantitatively there is a great difference between the Supreme Soul and
the common individual soul. In the Bhagavad-gita both the living beings
and the Supreme Being are said to be all-pervading (yena sarvam idam ta-
tam), yet there is a difference between these two kinds of all-pervasiveness.
A common living being or soul can be all-pervading within his own limited
body, but the supreme living being is all-pervading in all space and all time.
A common living being cannot extend its influence over another common
living being by its all-pervasiveness, but the Supreme Supersoul, the
Personality of Godhead, is unlimitedly able to exert His influence over all
places and all times and over all living beings. And because He is all-
pervasive, unlimited by time and space, He can appear even within the
