216 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 5

Lord, surely they are in want. A person who has no God consciousness
may live in opulence for the time being due to his past virtuous acts, but
if one. forgets his relationship with the Lord, certainly he must await the
stage of starvation by the law of the powerful material nature. One cannot
escape the vigilance of the powerful material nature unless he leads a God
conscious or devotional life.

TEXT 50

adm goa aarti
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a 2a aa yal
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tvam nah surdnam asi sanvayanam
kitta-stha adyah purusah puranah

tvam deva saktyam guna-karma-yonau
retas tvajayam kavim adadhe ’jah

tvam—Your Lordship; nah—of us; suranadm—of the demigods; asi— You
are; sdnvayanam—with different gradations; kita-sthah—one who is
unchanged; adyah—without any superior; purusah—the founder person;
purdnah—the oldest, who has no other founder; tvam— You; deva—O Lord;
Saktyam—unto the energy; guna-karma-yonau—unto the cause of the
material modes and activities; retah—semina of birth; tvajayam—for beget-
ting; kavim—the total living entities; @dadhe—initiated; ajah—one who is
unborn.

TRANSLATION

You are the original personal founder of all the demigods and the orders
of different gradations, yet You are the oldest and are unchanged. O Lord,
You have no source or superior. You have impregnated the external
energy with the semina of the total living entities, yet You are unborn.

PURPORT

The Lord, the Original Person, is the father of all other living entities,
beginning from Brahma, the personality from whom all other living
entities in different gradations of species are generated. Yet the supreme
father has no other father. Every one of the living entities of all grades,
up to Brahma, the original creature of the universe, is begotten by one
