Text 21] Maharaja Panksit Cursed by a Brahmana Boy 953

athapi yat-padanakhavasrstam
jagad virifitcopahrtarhanambhah

segam punaty anyatamo mukundat
ko nama loke bhagavat-padarthah

atha—therefore; api—certainly; yat—whose; pada-nakha—nails of the
feet; avasrstam—emanating; jagat—the whole universe; virifica—Brahmaji;
upahrta—collected ;arhana— worship ; ambhah— water ;sa— along with; am—
Lord Siva; punati— purifies; anyatamah—who else; mukundat—besides the
Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna; kah— who; nama—name; loke—within
the world; bhagavat—Supreme Lord; ; pada— —position; arthah—worth.

TRANSLATION

Who can be worthy of the name of the Supreme Lord but the Person-
ality of Godhead Sri Krsna? Brahmaji collected the water emanating from
the nails of His feet in order to award it to Lord Siva as a worshipful wel-
come. This very water [the Ganges] is purifying the whole universe,
including Lord Siva.

PURPORT

The conception of many gods in the Vedic literatures by the ignorant
is completely wrong. The Lord is one without a second, but He expands
Himself in many ways, and this is confirmed in the Vedas. Such expan-
sions of the Lord are limitless, but some of them are the living entities. The
living entities are not as powerful as the Lord’s plenary expansions, and
therefore there are two different types of, expansions. Lord Brahma is
generally one of the living entities, and Lord Siva is the via medium between
the Lord and the living entities. In other words, even demigods like Lord
Brahma and Lord Siva, who are the chief amongst all demigods, are never
equal to or greater than Lord Visnu the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The goddess of fortune, Laksmi and all-powerful demigods like Brahma
and Siva are engaged in the worship of Visnu or Lord Krsna; therefore who
can be more powerful than Mukunda (Lord Krsna) to be factually called
the Supreme Personality of Godhead? The goddess of fortune, Laksmiji,
Lord Brahm and Lord Siva are not independently powerful, but they are
powerful as expansions of the Supreme Lord, and all of them are engaged
in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, and so also are the living
entities. There are four sects of worshipful devotees of the Lord, and the
