598 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 10

when the Lord appears as a fish or hog, He is neither of them in the
material conception. It is His causeless mercy that He appears in every
society or species of life, but He is never to be considered one of them.
Conceptions of the material world such as good and bad, lower and upper,
important and insignificant are estimations of the material energy, and
the Supreme Lord is transcendental to all such conceptions. The word
param bhavam, or transcendental nature, can never be compared with the
material conception. We should not forget that the potencies of the Al-
mighty Lord are always the same and do not decrease because the Lord
assumes the form of a lower animal. There is no difference between Lord
Sri Rama, Lord Sri Krsna or His incarnations of fish and hogs. He is all-
pervading and simultaneously localized at any and every place. But the
foolish person with a poor fund of knowledge, for want of that param
bhavam of the Lord, cannot understand how the Supreme Lord can take
the form of a man or a fish. Everything is compared to its own standard of
knowledge, as the frog in the well considers the sea to be one like the well.
The frog in the well cannot even think of the sea, and when such a frog is
informed of the greatness of the sea it takes the conception of the sea as a
little greater than the well. As such, one who is foolish in the transcenden-
tal science of the Lord will find it difficult to understand how Lord Visnu
can equally manifest Himself in every society of living entities.

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tatah kalagni-rudratma
yat srstam idam a@tmanah
sanntyacchati tat kale
ghananikam ivanilah

tatah—thereafter at the end; kala—destruction; agni—fire; rudra-atma—
in the form of Rudra; yat—whatever; srstam—created; idam—all these;
atmanah--of Ilis own; sam—completely; niyacchati—annihilates; tat kale—
at the end of the millennium; ghana-anikam—bunches of clouds; iva—like
that of; anilah—air.
