Text 29] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 499

within the spider. The spider is covered within the web. If an insignificant
spider is so powerful as to act according to its will, why can’t the Supreme
Being act by His supreme will in the creation, maintenance and destruction
of the cosmic manifestations? By the grace of the Lord, a devotee like
Brahma, or one in his chain of disciplic succession, can understand the
almighty Personality of Godhead eternally engaged in His transcendental
pastimes in the region of different energies.

TEXT 29

waka Ral = aalexat |
ae: wart Te AAAI RAI

bhagavac-chiksitam aham
karavani hy atandritah

nehamanah praja-sargam
badhyeyarh yad-anugrahat

bhagavat—by the Personality of Godhead; siksitam—taught by; aham—
myself; karavani—be acting; hi—certainly; atandritah—instrumental; na--
never; thamanah—although acting; prajd-sargam—generation of the living
entities; badhyeyam—be conditioned; yat—as a matter of fact; anugrahat—
by the mercy of.

TRANSLATION

Please tell me so that | may be taught in the matter by the instruction
of the Personality of Godhead, and thus I may act instrumentally to
generate living entities, without being conditioned by such activities.

PURPORT

Brahmaji does not want to become a speculator dependent on the
strength of his personal knowledge and conditioned to material bondage.
Everyone should know in clear consciousness that one is, in the execution
of all activities, an instrument. A conditioned soul is instrumental in the
hands of the external energy, gunamayi maya, or the illusory energy of the
Lord, and in the liberated stage the living entily is instrumental to the will
