Text 18] Purusa-sikta Confirmed 289

TEXT 18

AMTAVITTAA TAA ATT |
AAT ad HA TOA BT: 2c

so ’mrtasyabhayasyeso
martyam annam yad atyagat

mahimaisa tato brahman
purusasya duratyayah

sah—He (the Lord); amrtasya—of deathlessness; abhayasya—of fearless-
ness; isah—the controller; martyam—dying; annam—fruitive action; yat—
one who has; atyagat—has transcended; mahima—glories; esah—of Him;
tatah—therefore; brahman—O brahmana Narada; purusasya—of the Supreme
Personality ; duratyayah—immeasurable.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the controller of immortality
and fearlessness, and He is transcendental to death and the fruitive actions
of the material world. O Narada, O brahmana, it is therefore difficult to
measure the glories of the Supreme Person.

PURPORT

The glories of the Lord, in the transcendental seventy-five percent
portion of the Lord’s internal potency, are stated in the Padma Purana
(Uttara-khanda). It is said there that those planets in the spiritual sky,
which comprises the seventy-five percent expansion of the internal potency
of the Lord, are far, far greater than those planets in the total universes
composed of the external potency of the Lord. In the Caitanya-caritamrta,
the total universes in the external potency of the Lord are compared to
a bucketful of mustard seeds. One mustard seed is calculated to be a uni-
verse itself. In one of the universes, in which we are now living, the number
of planets cannot be counted by human energy, so how can we think of
the sum total in all the universes, which are compared to a bucketful of
mustard seeds? And the planets in the spiritual sky are at least three times
the number of those in the material sky. Such planets, being spiritual, are
in fact transcendental to the material modes; therefore they are constituted
