236 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 5
first-grade nonsense talk is, “It is I, it is mine.” A godless civilization is
exclusively conducted by such false ideas, and such persons, without any
factual realization of God, accept a false God or falsely declare themselves
to be God to mislead persons who are already bewildered by the deluding
energy. Those who are, however, before the Lord, and who surrender unto
Him, cannot be influenced by the deluding energy; therefore they are free
from the misconception of “Tt is I, it is mine,” and therefore they do not
accept a false God or pose themselves as equal to the Supreme Lord.
Identification of the bewildered person is distinctly given in this verse.
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dravyam karma ca kdlas ca
sva-bhavo jiva eva ca
vasudevat paro brahman
na canyo ‘rtho ’sti tattvatah
dravyam—the ingredients (earth, water, fire, air and sky); karma—the
interaction; ca—and; kalah—eternal time; ca—also; sva-bhdvah—intuition
or nature; jivah—the living being; eva—certainly; ca—and; vésudevat—from
Vasudeva; parah—differentiated parts; brahman—O brahmana; na—never;
ca—also; anyah—separate; arthah—value; asti—there is; tattvatah—in truth.
TRANSLATION
The five elementary ingredients of creation, the interaction thereof set
up by eternal time, and the intuition or nature of the individual living
beings are all differentiated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead,
Vasudeva, and in truth there is no other value in them.
PURPORT
This phenomenal world is impersonally the representation of Vasudeva
because the ingredients of its creation, their interaction and the enjoyer of
