414 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 7

existence, the devotee is eternally situated there, as already discussed in
the previous verse.

TEXT 50

asd astafeaeta WAM Aaa: |
TATA ANAT ASAT -AT [Noll

so’yam te ’bhihitas tata
bhagavan visva-bhdvanah

samasena harer nanyad
anyasmat sad-asac ca yat

sah—thal; ayam—the same; te—unto you; abhihitah—explained by me;
tata—my dear son; bhagavan—the Personality of Godhead; visva-bhdvanah
—the creator of the manifested worlds; samdsena—in brief; hareh—-without
Hari, the Lord; na—never; anyat—anything else; an yasmat— being the cause
of; sat—manifested or phenomenal ;asat—noumenal ; ca—and; yat— whatever
there may be.

TRANSLATION

My dear son, I have now explained in brief the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, who is creator of the manifested worlds. Without Him, Hari, the
Lord, there are no other causes of the phenomenal and noumenal
existences.

PURPORT

As we have generally the experience of the temporary, material world
and conditioned souls trying to lord it over the material worlds, so
Brahmaji explained to Naradadeva that this temporary world is the work
of the external potency of the Lord, and the conditioned souls struggling
here for existence are the marginal potency of the Supreme Lord Person-
ality of Godhead, and but for Him, Hari, the Supreme Lord, there is no
other cause for all these phenomenal activities. He is the primeval cause
of all causes. This does not mean, however, that the Lord Himself is
distributed impersonally. He is aloof from all these interactions of the
external and marginal potencies. In the Bhagavad-gita, it is confirmed
