1326 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 31

TEXT 14

mT qaqeaa ea: Te

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yah paiica-bhitta-racite rahitah sarire

cchanno ’yathendriya-gunartha-cid-atmako *ham
tenavikuntha-mahimanam rsim tam enam

vande param prakyti-piirusayoh pumamsam

yah—who; pafica-bhiita—five gross elements; racite—made of; rahitah—
separated; sarire—in the material body; channah—covered; ayatha—unfitly;
indriya—senses; guna—qualities;artha—objects of senses; cit— ego; dtmakah—
consisting of; aham—I,; tena—by a material body; avikuntha-mahimanam—
whose glories are unobscured; rsim—all-knowing; tam—that; enam—unto
Him;vande—I offer obeisances; param— transcendental; prakrti—to material
nature; purusayofi—to the living entities; pumamsam—unto the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

I am separated from the Supreme Lord because of my being in this
material body, which is made of five elements, and therefore my qualities
and senses are being misused, although I am essentially spiritual. Because
the Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental to material nature
and the living entities, because He is devoid of such a material body, and
because He is always glorious in His spiritual qualities, I offer my
obeisances unto Him.

PURPORT

The difference between the living entity and the Supreme Personality
of Godhead is that the living entity is prone to be subjected to material
nature, whereas the Supreme Godhead is always transcendental to material
nature as well as to the living entities. When the living entity is put into
material nature, then his senses and qualities are polluted, or designated.
There is no possibility for the Supreme Lord to become embodied by
material qualities or material senses for the reason that He is above the
influence of material nature and cannot possibly be put in the darkness of
ignorance like the living entities. Because of His full knowledge, He is
