154 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 4
TEXT 33
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viduro ‘py uddhavac chrutva
krsnasya paramatmanah
kridayopatta-dehas ya
karmani slaghitani ca

vidurah— Vidura; api—also; uddhavat—from the source of Uddhava;
srutva—having heard; krsnasya—of Lord Krsna; paramatmanah—of the
Supersoul; kridaya—for the sake of pastimes in the mortal world; upatta—
extraordinarily accepted; dehasya—of the body; karmani—transcendental
activities; slaghitani— most glorious; ca—also.

TRANSLATION

Vidura also heard from Uddhava about the appearance and disappear-
ance of Lord Krsna, the Supersoul, in the mortal world, which is a subject
matter sought after with great perseverance by the great sages.

PURPORT

The subject matter of the appearance and disappearance of the Super-
soul, Lord Sri Krsna, is a mystery even for the great sages. The word
paramatmanah is significant in this verse. An ordinary living being is
generally called the atmanah, but Lord Krsna is never an ordinary living
being because He is paramatmanah, the Supersoul. Yet His appearance
as one of the human beings and His disappearance again from the mortal
world are subject matters for the research workers who execute research
work with great perseverance. Such subject matters are certainly of increas-
ing interest because the researchers have to search out the transcendental
abode of the Lord, which He enters after finishing His pastimes in the
mortal world. But even the great sages have no information that beyond
the material sky there is the spiritual sky where Sri Krsna eternally resides
with His associates, although at the same time He exhibits His pastimes in
the mortal world in all the universes one after another. This fact is con-
firmed in Brahma-samhita (Bs. 5.37): goloka eva nivasaty akhilatmabhutah.
“The Lord, by His inconceivable potency, resides in His eternal abode,
Goloka, yet at the same time, as the Supersoul, He is present every where—
both in the spiritual and material skies—by His multivarieties of manifes-
tation.” Therefore His appearance and disappearance are simultaneously
