Text 4] Activities of Kapila 1419
Each one of them is particularly invested with different kinds of power,
but the Supreme Lord is completely aloof from such activities. Devahiti
is saying, “Although You personally are not doing anything, Your deter-
mination is absolute. There is no question of Your fulfilling Your will with
the help of anyone else besides Yourself. You are, in the end, the Supreme
Soul and the supreme controller. Your will, therefore, cannot be checked
by anyone else.”” The Supreme Lord can check others’ plans. As it is
said, ‘Man proposes and God disposes.” But when the Supreme Personality
of Godhead proposes, that desire is under no one else’s control. He is
absolute. We are ultimately dependent on Him to fulfill our desires, but
we cannot say that God’s desires are also dependent. That is His incon-
ceivable power. That which may be inconceivable by ordinary living
entities is easily done by Him. And in spite of His being unlimited, He has
subjected Himself to being known from the authoritative scriptures like the
Vedic literatures. As it is said, Sabda-mulatvat: He can be known through
the §abda-brahman, or Vedic literature.

Why is the creation made? Since the Lord is the Supreme Personality of
Godhead for all living entities, He created this material manifestation for
those living entities who want to enjoy or lord it over material nature. As
the Supreme Godhead, He arranges to fulfill their various desires. It is
confirmed also in the Vedas, eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman: the
Supreme One supplies the necessities of the many living entities. There is
no limit to the demands of the different kinds of living entities, and the
Supreme One, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, alone maintains them
and supplies them by His inconceivable energy.

TEXT 4
aoa amt a ast ay
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we J FART Taga |
fia and wa TH
Ta BAPTTATS ATA: 1 A
sa tvari bhrto me jatharena natha
katham nu yasyodara etad asit
visvam yugante vata-patra ekah
Sete sma mayd-sisur aiighri-panah
