470 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 11

am death. I take away everything at the end of life.” Eternal time is also
without beginning, but it is the creator of all creatures. The example is
given of touchstone, which creates many valuable stones and jewels but
does not decrease in power. Similarly, creation occurs many times, every-
thing is maintained, and, after a time, everything is annihilated- but the
original creator, the Supreme Lord, remains untouched and undiminished
in power. The secondary creation is made by Brahma, but Brahmi is created
by the Supreme Godhead. Lord Siva annihilates the whole creation, but at
the end he is also annihilated by Visnu. Lord Visnu remains. In the Vedic
hymns it is stated that in the beginning there is only Visnu and that He
alone remains at the end.

An example can help us to understand the inconceivable potency of the
Supreme Lord. In the recent history of warfare the Supreme Personality of
Godhead created a Hitler and, before that, a Napoleon Bonaparte, and
they each killed many living entities in war. But in the end Bonaparte and
Hitler were also killed. People are still very much interested in writing and
reading books about Hitler and Bonaparte and how they killed so many
people in war. Year after year many books are published for public reading
regarding Hitler’s killing thousands of Jews in confinement. But no one is
researching who killed Hitler and who created such a gigantic killer of
human beings. The devotees of the Lord are not much interested in the
study of the flickering history of the world. They are interested only in
He who is the original creator, maintainer and annihilator. That is the
purpose of the Krsna consciousness movement.

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na vai sva-pakso ’sya vipaksa eva va
parasya mrtyor visatah samam prajah
tam dhavamanam anu dhavanty anisa
yatha rajamsy anilam bhuta-sanghah
na—not; vai—however; sva-paksah—ally; asya—of the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead; vipaksah—enemy ; eva—certainly ; va—or; parasya—of the
Supreme; mrtyoh—in the form of time; visatah—entering; samam—equally;
prajah—living entities; tam—Him; dhavamanam— moving; anu dhavanti—
