Text 10] King Citraketu Meets the Lord 91
dhiyam—of the varieties of intelligence; drasta—the seer; kartfndm—
of the performers; guna-dosayoh—of right and wrong activities.
TRANSLATION
For this living entity, no one is dear, nor is anyone unfavorable.
He makes no distinction between that which is his own and that
which belongs to anyone else. He is one without a second; in other
words, he is not affected by friends and enemies, well-wishers or
mischief-mongers. He is only an observer, a witness, of the
different qualities of men.
PURPORT
As explained in the previous verse, the living entity has the same
qualities as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but he has them in
minute quantities because he is a small particle (siiksma) whereas the
Supreme Lord is all-pervading and great. For the Supreme Lord there
are no friends, enemies or relatives, for He is completely free from all
the disqualifications of ignorance that characterize the conditioned souls.
On the other hand, He is extremely kind and favorable to His devotees,
and He is not at all satisfied with persons who are envious of His devo-
tees. As the Lord Himself confirms in Bhagavad-gita (9.29):
samo *ham sarva-bhitesu
na me dvesyo ’sti na priyah
ye bhajanti tu mam bhaktya
mayi te tesu capy aham
“T envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever
renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a
friend to him.” The Supreme Lord has no enemy or friend, but He is in-
clined toward a devotee who always engages in His devotional service.
Similarly, elsewhere in the Gita (16.19) the Lord says:
tan aham dvisatah kriiran
samsdresu naradhaman
ksipamy ajasram asubhan
dsurisv eva yonisu
