592 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 10

sthitir vaikuntha-vijayah
posanam tad-anugrahah

manvantarani sad-dharma
utayah karma-vasanah

sthitih—right situation; vaikuntha-vijayah—victory of the Lord of Vai-
kuntha; posanam—maintenance; tat-anugrahah—His causeless mercy; man-
vantarani—reign of the Manus; sat-dharmah—perfect occupational duty;
uitayah—impetus to work; karma-vasanah—desire for fruitive work.

TRANSLATION

The right situation for the living entities is to obey the laws of the Lord
and thus be in perfect peace of mind under the protection of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. The Manus and their laws are meant to give right
direction in life. The impetus of activity is the desire for fruitive work.

PURPORT

This material world is created, maintained for some time, and again
annihilated by the will of the Lord. The ingredients for creation and the
subordinate creator, Brahma, are first created by Lord Visnu in His first
and second incarnations. The first Purusa incarnation is Maha-Visnu, and
the second Purusa incarnation is the Garbhodakasayi Visnu, from whom
Brahma is created. The third Purusa avatdra is the Ksirodakagayi Visnu,
who lives as the Supersoul of everything in the universe and maintains the
creation generated by Brahmi. Siva is one of the many sons of Brahma,
and he annihilates the creation. Therefore the original creator of the
universe is Visnu, and He is also maintainer of the created beings by His
causeless mercy. As such, it is the duty of all conditioned souls to ac-
knowledge the victory of the Lord and thus become pure devotees and
live peacefully in this world where miseries and dangers of life are always
in existence. The conditioned souls who take this material creation as the
place for satisfaction of the senses, and thus are illusioned by the external
energy of Visnu, remain again to be subjected to laws of material nature,
creation and destruction.

In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that beginning from the topmost planet
of this universe down to the lowest planet, the Patalaloka, all are de-
structible, and the conditioned souls may travel in space either by good or
bad work or by the modern spacecraft, but they are sure to die everywhere,
