1516 Srimad-Bhagavatam [ Canto 4, Ch. 30

TEXT 24

™m frageae wa dara
TSI SMT TAT AIA Iv!

namo visuddha-sattvaya
haraye hari-medhase

vasudevaya krsnaya
prabhave sarva-sdtvatam

namah—obeisances; visuddha-sattvaya—unto You, whose existence is free
from all material influence; haraye—who takes away all miserable condi-
tions of devotees;hari-medhase— whose brain works only for the deliverance
of the conditioned soul ;va@sudevaya—the all-pervading Supreme Personality
of Godhead; krsnéya—unto Krsna; prabhave—who increases the influence;
sarva-satvatam— of all kinds of devotees.

TRANSLATION

Dear Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You because Your
existence is completely independent of all material influences. Your
Lordship always takes away the devotee’s miserable conditions, for Your
brain plans how to do so. You live everywhere as Paramatma; therefore
You are known as Vasudeva. You also accept Vasudeva as Your father,
and You are celebrated by the name of Krsna. You are so kind that You
always increase the influence of all kinds of devotees.

PURPORT

In the previous verse it has been said (grhita-ma@yd-guna-vigrahaya) that
the Lord accepts three kinds of bodies (Visnu, Brahma and Siva) for the
purposes of creating, maintaining and annihilating the cosmic manifestation.
The three predominating deities of the material universe (Brahma, Visnu
and Siva) are called guna-avataras. There are many kinds of incarnations of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the first incarnations within this
material world are Brahma, Visnu and Mahegvara (Siva). Out of these
three, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva accept material bodies, but Lord Visnu
does not accept a material body. Lord Visnu is therefore known as
visuddha-sattva. His existence is completely free from the contamination
of the material modes of nature. One should therefore not think that Lord
Visnu is in the same category with Lord Brahma and Siva. The sastras
forbid us to think in this way.
