128 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 9

anyone's help. He is spread everywhere (mayd tatam idam sarvam jagad
avyakta-mirtind). Nevertheless, He is not present everywhere in His
spiritual form. According to the Mayavada philosophy, the Supreme
Truth. being all-pervasive, does not need a transcendental form. The
Mayavadis suppose that since His form is distributed everywhere, He has
no form. This is untrue. The Lord keeps His transcendental form, and at
the same time He extends everywhere, in every nook and corner of the
material creation.

TEXT 35

aq aa way feracaake Ua: TIM AHAGIST-
HIS HOYUCTT SATA TIAA: TAHA TA Se ECA
Zam a faq: tl 24 I

atha tatra bhavan kim devadattavad iha guna-visarga-patitah
paratantryena sva-krta-kusalakusalam phalam upddadaty ahosvid
Gtmaérama upasama-silah samafjasa-darsana udadsta iti ha vava na

vidamah.

atha—therefore; tatra—in that; bhavan—Your Lordship; kim—
whether; deva-datta-vat—like an ordinary human being, forced by the
fruits of his activities; iha—in this material world; guna-visarga-
patitah—fallen in a material body impelled by the modes of material
nature; pdératantryena—by dependence on the conditions of time, space,
activity and nature; sva-krta—executed by oneself; kusala—auspicious;
akusalam—inauspicious; phalam—results of action; upddadati—ac-
cepts; Ghosvit—or; dtmaramah—completely self-satisfied; upasama-
Silah—self-controlled in nature; samafjasa-darsanah—not deprived of
full spiritual potencies; uddste—remains neutral as the witness; iti—
thus; ha véva—certainly; na vidamah—we do not understand.

TRANSLATION

These are our inquiries. The ordinary conditioned soul is sub-
ject to the material laws, and he thus receives the fruits of his ac-
tions. Does Your Lordship, like an ordinary human being, exist
