264 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 7
of the modes of material nature and are therefore perverted in appearance.
However, the Lord’s body and the Lord Himself are one and the same, and
when the Lord’s activities are displayed, they are certainly nondifferent
from the Lord in all respects. The conclusion is that persons who consider
the Lord’s activities material are certainly mistaken.
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ARIAS THY fret AEA II 3
kridayam udyamo ’rbhasya
kamas cikridisdnyatah
svatas-trptasya ca katharn
nivrttasya sadanyatah

kridayam—in the matter of playing; udyamah—enthusiasm; arbhasya—
of the boys; kamah—desire; cikridisa—willingness to play; anyatah—with
other boys; svatah-trptasya—for one who is self-satisfied; ca—also; katham—
what for; nivrttasya—one who is detached; sada—for all time; anyatah—
otherwise.

TRANSLATION

Boys are enthusiastic to play with other boys or with various diversions
because they are encouraged by desire. But there is no possibility of such
desire for the Lord because He is self-satisfied and detached from every-
thing.

PURPORT

Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is one without a second,
there is no possibility that anything besides Himself can exist. He expands
Himself by His energies in multiforms of self-expansions and separated
expansions as well, just as fire expands itself by heat and light. Since there
is no other existence besides the Lord Himself, the Lord’s association with
anything manifests His association with Himself. In Bhagavad-gita (9.4) the
Lord says:

maya tatam idam sarvam jagadavyakta-miirtina
mat-sthani sarva-bhiitani na caham tesv avasthitah

“The complete manifestation of the cosmic situation is an expansion of

the Lord Himself in His impersonal feature. All things are situated in Him
