296 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 6
knowledge; ca—and; purusah—the Supreme Person; tu—but; ubhaya—for
both of them; a@srayah—master.
TRANSLATION

By His energies, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead is thus com-
prehensively the master in the activities of controlling and in devotional
service. He is the ultimate master of both nescience and factual knowledge
of all situations.

PURPORT

The word visvam is significant in this verse. One who travels perfectly in
every field of activity is called the purusah or ksetrajna. These two terms,
ksetrajna and purusa, are equally applicable to both the individual self and
the Supreme Self, the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gita the matter is explained
as follows:

ksetrajiiarn capi mam viddhi sarva-ksetresu bharata

ksetra-ksetrajnayor jnanam yat taj jidnam matam mama

(Bg. 13.3)

Ksetra means the place, and one who knows the place is called the
ksetrajna. The individual self knows about his limited field of activities,
but the Supreme Self, the Lord, knows about the unlimited field of activi-
ties. The individual soul knows about his own thinking, feeling and willing
activities, but the Supersoul or the Paramdtma, the supreme controller,
being present everywhere, knows everyone’s thinking, feeling and willing
activities, and as such the individual living entity is the minute master of
his personal affairs, whereas the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the
master of everyone’s affairs, past, present, and future (vedaham samatitani,
etc.). Only the ignorant person does not know this difference between the
Lord and the living entities. The living entities, as distinguished from the
incognizant matter, may be qualitatively equal to the Lord in the matter of
cognizance, but the living entity can never be equal to the Lord in full
knowledge of past, present and future.

And because the living entity is partially cognizant, he is therefore
sometimes forgetful of his own identity. This forgetfulness is specifically
manifested in the field of the ekapad-vibhiti of the Lord, or in the material
world, but in the tripad-vibhiti field of actions, or in the spiritual world,
