400 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 7

of anger. But all of them are but different manifestations of the Supreme
Lord. Therefore Brahma, Visnu and Mahadeva (Siva) are different incarna-
tions of the different modes of material nature. Visnu is the Lord of the
mode of goodness. Brahma is the lord of the mode of passion, and Siva
is the lord of the mode of ignorance. Ultimately, the material creation is
but a temporary manifestation meant to give the chance of liberation to
the conditioned souls who are entrapped in the material world, and one
who develops the mode of goodness under the protection of Lord Visnu
has the greatest chance of being liberated by following the Vaisnava
principles and thus being promoted to the kingdom of God, no more to
return to this miserable material world.

TEXT 40
feng deanna wanisedte
a Ufaareaty Hata Tala |
THA T: Mencaan fags
FAA AME TATA TE FETATATY OUI

visnor nu virya-gananam katamo’rhatiha
yah parthivany api kavir vimame rajamsi
caskambha yah sva-rahasaskhalata tri-prsthani
yasmat tri-samya-sadandd uru-kampayanam

visnoh—of Lord Visnu; nu—but; virya—prowess; gananam—in the matter
of accounting; katamah—who else; arhati—is able to do it; iha—in this
world; yah—one who; parthivani—the atoms; api—also; kavih—great scien-
list; vimame—might have counted; rajamsi— particles; caskambha—could
catch; yah—one who; sva-rahasad—by His own leg; askhalata—without being
hampered; tri-prstham—the topmost planetary space; yasmat—by which;
tri-samya—the neutral state of the three modes; sadanat--up to that place;
uru-kampaydnam—moving very greatly.

TRANSLATION

Who can describe completely the prowess of Visnu? Even the scientist,
who might have counted the particles of the atoms of the universe, cannot
