Text 15] Remembrance of Lord Krsna 67
TRANSLATION

The Personality of Godhead, the all-compassionate controller of both
the spiritual and material creations, is unborn, but when there is friction
between His peaceful devotees and persons who are in the material modes
of nature, He takes birth just like fire, accompanied by the mahat-tattva.

PURPORT

The devotees of the Lord are by nature peaceful because they have no
material hankering. A liberated soul has no hankering, and therefore he has
no lamentation. One who wants to possess also laments when he loses his
possession. Devotees have no hankerings for material possessions and no
hankerings for spiritual salvation. They are situated in the transcendental
loving service of the Lord as a matter of duty, and they do not mind where
they are or how they have to act. Karmis, janis and yogis all hanker to
possess some material or spiritual assets. Karmis want material possessions,
jianis and yogis want spiritual possessions, but devotees do not want any
material or spiritual assets. They want only to serve the Lord anywhere in
the material or spiritual worlds that the Lord desires, and the Lord is
always specifically compassionate towards such devotees.

The karmis, janis and yogis have their particular mentalities in the
modes of nature, and therefore they are called itara or nondevotees. These
itaras, including even the yogis, sometimes harass the devotees of the Lord.
Durvasa Muni, a great yogi, harassed Maharaja Ambarisa because the
latter was a great devotee of the Lord. And the great karmi and jiani
Hiranyakasipu even harassed his own Vaisnava son, Prahlada Maharaja.
There are many instances of such harassment of the peaceful devotees of
the Lord by the itaras. When such friction takes place, the Lord, out of
His great compassion towards His pure devotees, appears in person,
accompanied by His plenary portions controlling the mahat-tattva.

The Lord is everywhere, both in the material and spiritual domains, and
He appears for the sake of His devotees when there is friction between His
devotee and the nondevotee. As electricity is generated by friction of
matter anywhere and everywhere, similarly, the Lord, being all-pervading,
appears because of the friction of devotees and nondevotees. When Lord
Krsna appears on a mission, all His plenary portions accompany Him.
When He appeared as the son of Vasudeva, there were differences of
opinions about His incarnation. Some said, “He is the Supreme
