Text 16] Brahma’s Prayers for Creative Energy 353

One who invokes His transcendental names, even unconsciously, at the
time he quits this life, certainly is immediately washed of the sins of
many, many births and attains Him without fail.

PURPORT

The activities of the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead are a kind of imitation of the activities going on in the material
world. He is just like an actor on a stage. An actor imitates the activities of
a king on stage, although actually he is not the king. Similarly, when the
Lord incarnates, He imitates parts with which He has nothing to do. In
Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 4.14), it is said that the Lord has nothing to do with
the activities in which He is supposedly engaged: na mam karmani
limpanti na me karma-phale sprha. The Lord is omnipotent; simply by His
will He can perform anything and everything. When the Lord appeared as

Lord Krsna, He played the part of the son of Yasoda and Nanda, and He
lifted the Govardhana Hill, although lifting a hill is not His concern. He
can lift millions of Govardhana Hills by His simple desire; He does not
need to lift it with His hand. But He imitates the ordinary living entity by
this lifting, and at the same time He exhibits His supernatural power. Thus
His name is chanted as the lifter of Govardhana Hill, or Sri Govardhana-
dhari. Therefore, His acts in His incarnations and His partiality to the
devotees are all imitations only, just like the stage makeup of an expert
dramatical player. His acts in that capacity, however, are all omnipotent,
and the remembrance of such activities of the incarnations of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead is as powerful as the Lord Himself.
Ajamila remembered the holy name of the Lord, Narayana, by merely
calling the name of his son Narayana, and that gave him a complete
opportunity to achieve the highest perfection of life.

TEXT 16
Ta ae a firfera fra: aaa
PRTRIATVAT MATT |
Firat ravage oa sERtTe-
wea AMT ATTA TTATATT 112 Gl
yo va aham ca girisas ca vibhuh svayam ca
sthity-udbhava-pralaya-hetava atma-mulam

bhittva tripad vavrdha eka uru-prarohas
tasmai namo bhagavate bhuvana-drumdya
