46 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 1

not subject to the reactions of material nature. In Bhagavad-gita it is
said:

na mam karmani limpanti na me karma-phale sprha
iti mam yo *bhijanati karmabhir na sa baddhyate (Bg. 4.14)

The law of karma enacted by the Supreme Lord for the living entities
cannot be applicable to Him, nor has the Lord any desire to improve Him-
self by activities like those of ordinary living beings. Ordinary living beings
work for the improvement of their conditional lives. But the Lord is al-
ready full of all opulence, all strength, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge
and all renunciation. Why should He desire improvement? No one can
excel Him in any opulence, and therefore the desire for improvement is
absolutely useless for Him. One should always discriminate between the
activities of the Lord and those of ordinary living beings. Thus one may
come to the right conclusion regarding the Lord’s transcendental position.
One who can come to the conclusion of the Lord’s transcendence can be-
come a devotee of the Lord and can at once be free from all reactions of
past deeds. It is said, karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhajam: The
Lord minimizes or nullifies the reactionary influence of the devotees’ past
deeds. (B.s. 5:54)

The activities of the Lord are to be accepted and relished by all living
entities. His activities are to attract the ordinary man towards the Lord.
The Lord always aets:in favor of the devotees, and therefore ordinary
men who are fruitive actors or seekers of salvation may be
attracted to the Lord when He acts as protector of the devotees. The
fruitive actors can attain their goals by devotional service, and the
salvationists can also attain their goal in life by devotional service to the
Lord. The devotees neither want the fruitive results of their work nor do
they want any kind of salvation. They relish the glorious superhuman
activities of the Lord, such as His lifting Govardhana Hill, His killing the
demon Putana in infancy, etc. His activities are enacted to attract all kinds
of men—karmis, jiianis and bhaktas. Because He is transcendental to all
laws of karma, there is no possibility of His accepting a form of maya as
is forced on the ordinary living entities who are bound by the actions and
reactions of their own deeds.

The secondary purpose of His appearance is to annihilate the upstart
asuras and to stop the nonsense of atheistic propaganda by less intelligent
persons. By the Lord’s causeless mercy, the asuras who are killed
personally by the Personality of Godhead get salvation. The meaningful
