Text 28] The Residents of Jambidvipa Offer Prayers 203

Sometimes so-called svdmis are very eager to feed poor people, think-
ing them to be daridra-ndrayana, the Lord’s incarnations as beggars.
They prefer to serve the manufactured daridra-narayana than the origi-
nal, supreme Narayana. They say, “Don’t encourage service to Lord
Narayana. It is better to serve the starving people of the world.” Unfor-
tunately such materialists, either singly or combined in the form of the
United Nations, cannot fulfill their plans. The truth is that the many
millions of human beings, animals, birds and trees—indeed, all living
entities—are maintained solely by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Eko bahiiném yo vidadhati kaman: one person, the Supreme Lord, is
supplying the necessities of life for all other living entities. To challenge
the authority of Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the
business of asuras (demons). Yet sometimes suras, or devotees, are also
bewildered by the illusory energy and falsely claim to be the maintainer
of the entire universe. Such incidents are described in the Tenth Canto of
Srimad-Bhagavatam, where Sukadeva Gosvami tells how Lord Brahma
and King Indra became puffed up and were eventually chastised by
Krsna.

TEXT 28

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bhavan yugantarnava tirmi-malini

ksonim imam osadhi-virudham nidhim
maya sahoru kramate ‘ja ojasa

tasmai jagat-prana-gandatmane nama iti

bhavan— Your Lordship; yuga-anta-arnave—in the water of devasta-
tion at the end of the millennium; érmi-malini—possessing rows of big
waves; ksonim—the planet earth; imaém—this; osadhi-virudham—of all
kinds of herbs and drugs; nidhim—the storehouse; mayd—me; saha—
with; uru—great; kramate—You roamed; aja—O unborn one; ojasa—
with speed; tasmai—unto Him; jagat—of the entire universe; prana-
gana-atmane—the ultimate source of life; namah—my respectful obei-
sances; iti—thus.
