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service of the Lord. In the service of the Personality of Godhead, it is not
that Lord Brahma is considered very great while an ordinary human
being trying to preach the glories of the Lord is considered very low.
There are no such distinctions. Regardless of whether materially high or
materially low, anyone engaged in the service of the Lord is spiritually
very dear to Him. In this regard, Srila Madhvacarya gives this quotation
from the Tantra-nirnaya:

visesa-vyakti-patratvad
brahmddyas tu vibhitayah

tad-antaryaminas caiva
matsyadya vibhavah smrtah

From Lord Brahma down, all the living entities engaged in the service of
the Lord are extraordinary and are called vibhiti. As the Lord says in

Bhagavad-gita (10.41):

yad yad vibhiitimat sattvam
Srimad irjitam eva va

tat tad evavagaccha tvarh
mama tejo-’risa-sambhavam

“Know that all beautiful, glorious and mighty creations spring from but
a spark of My splendor.” A living entity especially empowered to act on
behalf of the Lord is called vibhiti, whereas the visnu-tattva incarnations
of the Lord, such as the Matsya avatdra (kesava dhrta-mina-sarira jaya

Jagad-isa hare), are called vibhava.

TEXT 46

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ASA RAT FATT ATATAT: BU: BEI

tapo me hrdayar brahmams
tanur vidya kriyakrtih
angani kratavo jata
dharma atmasavah surah
