Text 36] Bhagavatam is the Answer 591
allainment of salvation, being merged in the impersonal form of the Lord
known as brahmajyoti. Therefore the pure devotees of the Lord are de-
scribed here as vipascita, or the learned who are in the knowledge of the
Lord perfectly.
TEXT 36
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aETET TI THAR! TW REI
sa vacya-vacakataya
bhagavan brahma-riipa-dhrk
nama-ripa-k riya dhatte
sa-karmakarmakah parah
sah—He; vacya—by His forms and activities; vacakataya—by His transcen-
dental qualities and entourage; bhagavan—the Personality of Godhead;
brahma—absolute; ripa-dhrk—by accepting visible forms; néma—name;
ripa—form; kriya—pastimes; dhatte—accepts; sa-karma—engaged in work;
akarmakah—without being affected; parah—transcendence.
TRANSLATION
He, the Personality of Godhead, manifests Himself in a transcendental
form, being the subject of His transcendental name, quality, pastimes,
entourage and transcendental variegatedness. Although He is unaffected
by all such activities, He appears to be so engaged.
PURPORT
Whenever there is need of material creation, the transcendental Person-
ality of Godhead accepts forms in the material world for creation, main-
tenance and destruction, and one should be intelligent enough to know
His activities in truth without being biased to conclude that He descends
in the material world by accepting a form created by material nature.
Any form accepted from the material nature has its affection to everything
done in the material world. A conditioned soul who accepts the material
form for undergoing a certain term of material activities is subjected to
the laws of matter. But here in this verse it is clearly stated that the forins
and activities of the Lord, although they appear to be the same as those of
