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are eka-nistha, or absolutely attached to the devotional service of the Lord.
Therefore they have practically no time to see the benefits of material
facilities. Because of their realization of their spiritual identity, they are
more concerned with spiritual emancipation than with material comforts.

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narayane bhagavati
tad idam vigsvam ahitam
grhita-mayoru-gunah
sargadav agunah svatah

narayane--unto Narayana; bhagavati—the Personality of Godhead; tat
idam—all these material manifestations: vigvam—all the universes; ahitam—
situated; grhita—having accepted; ma@yd—material energies; uru-gunah—
greatly powerful; sarga-ddau--in the matter of creation, maintenance and
destruction; agunah—without affinity for the material modes; svatah—
self-sufficiently.

TRANSLATION

All the material manifestations of the universes are therefore situated
in His powerful material energies, which He accepts self-sufficiently,
although He is eternally without affinity for the material modes.

PURPORT

The question put by Narada before Brahma concerning the sustenance
of the material creation is thus answered. Material actions and reactions,
as the material scientist can superficially observe, are not basically ultimate
truth in regards to creation, maintenance, and destruction. But the material
energy is a potency of the Lord which is displayed in time, accepting the
three qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance in the forms of Visnu,
Brahma and Siva. The material energy thus works under the supreme spell
of His Lordship, although He is always transcendental to all such material
