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manifestations of happiness or distress, but he should try to cooperate
with the Lord in His outward activities for correcting the fallen souls. By
His order only one should become a spiritual master and cooperate with
the Lord. One should not become a spiritual master for one’s personal
benefit or for some material gain or as an avenue of business or occupation
for earning livelihood. Bona fide spiritual masters who look unto the
Supreme Lord to cooperate with Him are actually qualitatively one with
the Lord, and the forgetful ones are perverted reflections only. Yudhisthira
Maharaja is advised, therefore, by Narada not to be disturbed with the
affairs of so-called happiness and distress, but to look only unto the Lord
to execute the mission for which the Lord has descended. That was his
prime duty.
TEXT 49
ASAT ANT ATA TATA |
PISSUSTMMNSATANATY Bay UBS
so’yam adya mahdaraja
bhagavan bhiita-bhavanah
kala-riapo’vatirno’syam
abhavaya sura-dvisam

sah—that Supreme Lord; ayam—the Lord Sri Krsna; adya—at present;
maharaja—O King; bhagavan—the Personality of Godhead; bhita-bhavanah
—the creator or the father of everything created; kala-riipah—in the disguise
of devouring time; avatirnah—descended;asyam—upon the world; abhavaya
—for eliminating; sura-dvisam—those who are against the will of the Lord.

TRANSLATION
That Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krsna in the guise of
all devouring time [k4la-ripa] has now descended on earth to eliminate
the envious from the world.
PURPORT

There are two classes of human beings, namely the envious and the
obedient. Since the Supreme Lord is one and the father of all living beings,
the envious living beings are also His sons, but they are known as the
asuras. But the living beings who are obedient to the Supreme Father are
called devatas, or demigods, because they are not contaminated by the
material conception of life. The asuras are not only envious of the Lord
in even denying the existence of the Lord, but they are also envious of all
other living beings. The predominance of asuras in the world is occasionally
