Text 19] Svayambhuva Manu Advises Dhruva Maharaja 469
situatedin one place, but by its energies many different types of machinery
move. The production is never identical with the original source of the
energy, but the original source of energy, being the prime factor, is simul-
taneously one and different from the product. Therefore, Lord Caitanya’s
philosophy, acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, is the perfect way of understand-
ing. In this material world, the Lord incarnates in three forms—as Brahma,
Visnu and Siva—by which He takes charge of the three modes of material
nature. By His incarnation of Brahma He creates, as the incarnation of
Visnu He maintains, and by His incarnation of Siva, He also annihilates.
But the original source of Brahma, Visnu and Siva—Garbhodakaégayi
Visnu-is always apart from these actions and reactions of material nature.
TEXT 19
ASAT ASTRE: MASMAMAHTETT:|
wd FAT TAT ANT TaeT aT AI
so ‘nanto ‘nta-karah kalo
‘nadir adi-krd avyayah
Janam janena janayan
marayan mrtyunantakam

sah—He; anantah—infinite; anta-karah—annihilator; kalah—time;
anadih—without beginning; adi-krt—beginning of everything; avyayah—
without decrease; janam-—living entities; janena—by living entities; janayan—
causing to be born; marayan—killing; mptyuna—by death;anta-kam— killers.

TRANSLATION

My dear Dhruva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is ever existing.
In the form of time, He is the killer of everything. He has no beginning,
although He is the beginning of everything, nor is He ever exhaustible,
although everything is exhausted in due course of time. The living entities
are created through the agency of the father, and they are killed through
the agency of death, but He is perpetually free of birth and death.

PURPORT

The supreme authority and inconceivable power of the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead can be minutely studied from this verse. He is always
unlimited. That means that He has no creation or end. He is, however,
death (in the form of time), as described in Bhagavad-gita. Krsna says, “‘l
