498 Srimad Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 9
tions of the Lord. In other words, there is nothing but the Lord, and still
the Lord is different from all such manifestive activities. How it is so will
be explained later on.
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kridasy amogha-sankalpa
urnanabhir yathornute
tatha tad-visayam dhehi
manisam mayi madhava
kndasi—as You do play; amogha—infallible; sankalpa—determination;
urnabhih—the spider; yatha—as much as; irpute—covers; tatha—so and so;
lat-visayam—in the subject of all those; dhehi—do let me know; manisam—
philosophically ; mayi—unto me; madhava—O master of all energies.
TRANSLATION
O master of all energies, please tell me philosophically all about them.
You play like the spider who covers itself by its own energy, and Your
determination is infallible.
PURPORT
By the inconceivable energy of the Lord, every creative clement has its
own potencies, known as the potency of the clement, potency of know-
ledge and potency of different actions and reactions. By a combination of
such potential energies of the Lord there is the manifestation of creation,
maintenance and annihilation in due course of time and by different
agents like Brahma, Visnu and Maheégvara. Brahma creates, Visnu main-
tains, and Lord Siva destroys. But all such agents and creative energies are
emanations from the Lord, and as such there is nothing except the Lord,
or the one supreme source of different diversities. The exact example is the
spider and spider’s web. The web is created by the spider, and it is main-
tained by the spider, and as soon as it likes, the whole thing is wound up
