Text 36] The Appearance of the Demon Vrtrasura 131
are unable to understand the truth concerning You. Furthermore,
because of polluted eagerness to arrive at the right conclusion,
their theories are incapable of revealing You, who are transcen-
dental to their material conceptions. You are one without a second,
and therefore in You contradictions like doing and not doing, hap-
piness and distress, are not contradictory. Your potency is so great
that it can do and undo anything as You like. With the help of that
potency, what is impossible for You? Since there is no duality in
Your constitutional position, You can do everything by the
influence of Your energy.
PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, being self-sufficient, is full of
transcendental bliss (@tmérdma). He enjoys bliss in two ways—when He
appears happy and when He appears distressed. Distinctions and
contradictions are impossible in Him because only from Him have they
emanated. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of all
knowledge, all potency, all strength, opulence and influence. There is no
limit to His powers. Since He is full in all transcendental attributes,
nothing abominable from the material world can exist in Him. He is
transcendental and spiritual, and therefore conceptions of material hap-
piness and distress do not apply to Him.

We should not be astonished to find contradictions in the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Actually there are no contradictions. That is the
meaning of His being supreme. Because He is all-powerful, He is not
subject to the conditioned soul’s arguments regarding His existence or
nonexistence. He is pleased to protect His devotees by killing their
enemies. He enjoys both the killing and the protecting.

Such freedom from duality applies not only to the Lord but also to His
devotees. In Vrndavana, the damsels of Vrajabhimi enjoy transcendental
bliss in the company of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and
they feel the same transcendental bliss in separation when Krsna and
Balarama leave Vrndavana for Mathura. There is no question of material
pains or pleasures for either the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His
pure devotees, although they are sometimes superficially said to be dis-
tressed or happy. One who is atmdrdma is blissful in both ways.
