Text 9] Divisions of the Creation 391
TEXT 9
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wae afafirrea frre: TATA 8
etavaii jiva-lokasya
samstha-bhedah samahrtah
dharmasya hy animittasya
vipakah paramesthy asau

etavan—up to this; jiva-lokasya—of the planets inhabited by the living en-
tities; samstha-bhedah—different situations of habitation; samahrtah—per-
formed completely; dharmasya—of religion; hi—certainly ; animittasya—of
causelessness; vipakah—mature stage; paramesthi—the highest personality
in the universe; asau—that.

TRANSLATION

Lord Brahma is the most exalted personality in the universe because of
his causeless devotional service unto the Lord in mature transcendental
knowledge. He therefore created all the fourteen planetary divisions for
inhabitation by the different types of living entities.

PURPORT

The Supreme Lord is the reservoir of all the qualities of the living
entities. The conditioned souls in the material world reflect only part of
those qualities, and therefore they are sometimes called pratibimbas.
These pratibimba living entities, as parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord,
have inherited different proportions of His original qualities, and in terms
of their inheritance of these qualities, they appear as different species of
life and are accommodated in different planets according to the plan of
Brahma. Brahma is the creator of the three worlds, namely the lower
planets, called the Patalalokas, the middle planets, called the Bhirlokas,
and the upper planets, called the Svarlokas. Still higher planets, such as
Maharloka, Tapoloka, Satyaloka and Brahmaloka, do not dissolve in the
devastating water because of the causeless devotional service rendered unto
the Lord by their inhabitants, whose existence continues up to the end of
dvi-parardha time, when they are generally liberated from the chain of
birth and death in the material world.
