Text 36] The Pandavas Retire Timely 815

word dhatte, eternally accepted, (and not the word dhatva, accepted for
the occasion) is used. The idea is that the Lord does not create the
incarnation of fish; He has eternally such a form, and the appearance and
disappearance of such an incarnation serve particular purposes. In the
Bhagavad-gita the Lord says (Bg. 7.24-25), ““The impersonalists think that
I have no form and that I am formless, but that at present | have accepted
a form to serve a purpose, and now I am manifested. But such speculators
are factually without sharp intelligence. Though they may be good scholars
in the Vedic literatures, they are practically ignorant of My inconceivable
energies and My eternal forms of Personality. The reason is that I reserve
the power of not being exposed to the nondevotees by My mystic curtain.
The less intelligent fools are therefore unaware of My eternal form, which
is never to be vanquished and is unborn.” In the Padma Purana it is said
that those who are envious and always angry at the Lord are unfit to know
the actual and eternal form of the Lord. In the Bhagavatam also it
is said that the Lord appeared like a thunderbolt to those who were
wrestlers. Sigupala, at the time of being killed by the Lord, could not see
Him as Krsna, being dazzled by the glare of the brahmajyoti. Therefore,
the temporary manifestation of the Lord as a thunderbolt to the wrestlers
appointed by Karhsa, or the glaring appearance of the Lord before Sigupala,
etc., were relinquished by the Lord, but the Lord as a magician is
eternally existent and is never vanquished in any circumstance. Such
forms are temporarily shown to the asuras only, and when such exhibitions
are withdrawn, the asuras think that the Lord is no more existent, just as
the foolish audience thinks the magician to be burnt to ashes or cut into
pieces. The conclusion is that the Lord has no material body, and therefore
He is never to be killed or changed by His transcendental body.

TEXT 36

Wal wTeeat wrataat wet
wet aa Tai TAceT: |

acca yaaa
TART Arcee MEL

yada mukundo bhagavan imam mahim
jahau sva tanva sravaniya-satkathah

tadaharevaprati-buddha-cetasam
abhadra-hetuh kalir anvavartata
