Text 5] Brahma’s Prayers for Creative Energy 337

The Lord expands Himself as the flames of a fire expand one after another.
Although the original flame, or Sri Krsna, is accepted as Govinda, the
Supreme Person, all other expansions, such as Rama, Nrsimha and Varaha,
are as potent as the original Lord. All such expanded forms are transcen-
dental. In the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is made clear that the
Supreme Truth is eternally uncontaminated by material touch. There is no
jugglery of words and activities in the transcendental kingdom of the
Lord. All the Lord’s forms are transcendental, and such manifestations
are ever identical. The particular form of the Lord exhibited to a devotee
is not mundane, even though the devotee may retain material desire, nor
is it manifest under the influence of material energy, as is foolishly
considered by the impersonalists. Impersonalists who consider the transcen-
dental forms of the Lord to be products of the material world are surely
destined for hell.

‘TEXT 5

aq aaa
farted aulfaatafaaratad |
WEAN TATA: WAT AAT

AAT Ar EATTVTRAT ATAU HI

ye tu tvadiya-caranambuja-kosa-gandham
Jighranti karna-vivarath srutivatanitam

bhaktya grhita-caranah parayé ca tesam
napaisi natha hrdayambu-ruhat sva-pumsam

ye—those who; tu—but; tvadiya—Y our; carana-ambuja—lotus feet; koga—
inside; gandham—flavor; jighranti—smells; karpa-vivaraih—through the
channel of the ears; Sruti-vatanitam—carried by the air of Vedic sound;
bhaktya—by devotional service; grhita-caranah—accepting the lotus feet;
paraya—transcendental; ca—also; tesam—for them; na—never; apaisi—
separate; natha—O my Lord; hrdaya—heart; ambu-ruhat—from the lotus of;
sva-pumsam—of Your own devotees.

TRANSLATION
O my Lord, persons who smell the aroma of Your lotus feet, carried by
the air of Vedic sound through the holes of the ears, accept Your
devotional service. For them You are never separated from the lotus of
their hearts.
