Text 51] Pregnancy of Diti in the Evening 371
whimsical about the form of the Lord, nor does he ever think that the
Lord is impersonal and can assume a form desired by the nondevotee.
The nondevotee has no idea of the form of the Lord, and thus he cannot
think of any one of the above-mentioned forms. But whenever a devotee
sees the Lord, he sees Him in a most beautifully decorated form,
accompanied by His constant companion, the goddess of fortune, who is
eternally beautiful.
TEXT 51
AFT TAY
Grag TH HMTfEAeassA TET: 142 I
mattreya wvaca
Srutva bhagavatam pautram
amodata ditir bhrsam
putrayos ca vadham krsnad
viditvadsin maha-manah
maitreyah uvaca—the sage Maitreya said; sgrutva—by _ hearing;
bhagavatam—to be a great devotee of the Lord;pautram—grandson;
amodata—took pleasure; ditih—Diti; bhrsam—very greatly; putrayoh—
of two sons; ca—also; vadham—the killing; krsnat—by Krsna; viditva—know-
ing this; astt— became; maha-manah—highly pleased in mind.
TRANSLATION
Sage Maitreya said: Hearing that her grandson would be a great devotee
and that her sons would be killed by Krsna, Diti was highly pleased in
mind.
PURPORT
Diti was very aggrieved to learn that because of her untimely pregnancy
her sons would be demons and would fight with the Lord. But when she
heard that her grandson would be a great devotee and that her two sons
would be killed by the Lord, she was very satisfied. As the wife of a
great sage and the daughter of a great prajapati, Daksa, she knew that
being killed by the Personality of Godhead is a great fortune. Since the
Lord is absolute, His acts of violence and nonviolence are both on the
absolute platform. There is no difference in such acts of the Lord.
Mundane violence and nonviolence have nothing to do with the Lord’s
acts. A demon killed by Him attains the same result as one who attains
