Text 30] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 501

TRANSLATION

O my Lord, the unbom, You have shaken hands with me just like »
friend does with a friend [as if equal in position]. I shall be engaged in the
crealion of different types of living entities, and | shall be occupied in
Your service. | shall have no perturbation, but | pray that all this may not
give rise to pride, as if 1 were the Supreme.

PURPORT

lord Brahma is definitely situated in the humor of friendship with the
Lord. Every living being is eternally related with the Personality of God-
head in one of five different transcendental humors, namely santa, dasya,
sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya. We have already discussed these five kinds
of humors in relationship with the Personality of Godhead. It is clearly
exhibited herein that Lord Brahmi is related to the Personality of Godhead
in the transcendental humor of friendship. A pure devotee may be related
with the Lord in any one of the transcendental humors, even in the humor
of parenthood, but the devotee of the Lord is always a transcendental
servitor. No one is equal to or greater than the Lord. That is the version of
the Bhagavad-gita. Brahmiaji, although eternally related with the Lord
in the transcendental humor of friendship, and although entrusted with
the most exalted post of creating different grades of living entities, still is
conscious of his position, that he is neither the Supreme Lord nor is
supremely powerful. It is possible that some personality, within or without
the universe, even though extremely powerful, sometimes shows more
power than the Lord Himself. Still the pure devotee knows that this power
is a vibhiiti delegated by the Lord, and such a delegated powerful living en-
tity is never independent. Sri | Hanumanji crossed the Indian Ocean by jump-
ing over the sea, and Lord Sri Ramacandra engaged Himself in marching
over the bridge, but this does not mean that Hanumanji was more powerful
than the Lord. Sometimes the Lord gives extraordinary powers to His
devotee, but the devotee knows always that the power belongs to the
Personality of Godhead and that the devotee is only an instrument. The
pure devotee is never puffed up like the nondevotee class of men who
falsely think that they are God. It is astonishing to see how a person who
is being kicked by the laws of the Lord’s illusory energy in every step can
falsely think of becoming one with the Lord. Such thinking is the last
snare of the illusory energy offered to the conditioned soul. The first
