1074 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 26

a pastime. The Lord’s pastimes and the conditioned living entity’s
acceptance of karmic reaction are not on the same level.

TEXT 9

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devahiitir uvaca
prakrteh purusasyapi
laksanam purusottama
brihi kdranayor asya
sad-asac ca yad-dtmakam

devahiitih uvaca—Devahiuti said; prakrteh—of His energies; purusasya—of
the Supreme Person; api—also; laksanam—characteristics; purusa-uttama—
O Supreme Personality of Godhead; brihi—kindly explain; kdranayoh—
causes; asya—of this creation; sat-asat—manifest and unmanifest; ca—and;
yat-atmakam-—consisting of which.

TRANSLATION

Devahiti said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, kindly explain the
characteristics of the Supreme Person and His energies because both of
these are the causes of this manifest and unmanifest creation.

PURPORT

Prakrti, or material nature, is connected with both the Supreme Lord
and the living entities, just as a woman is connected with her husband as a
wife and with her children as a mother. In Bhagavad-gitd the Lord says
that He impregnates mother nature with children, living entities, and
thereafter all species of living entities become manifest. The relationship
of all living entities with material nature has been explained. Now an
understanding of the relationship between material nature and the Supreme
Lord is sought by Devahuti. The product of that relationship is stated to
be the manifest and unmanifest material world. The unmanifest material
