102 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 16
TRANSLATION
Perceiving Your personal bliss, You are always transcendental to
the waves of material nature. Therefore, my Lord, I offer my re-
spectful obeisances unto You. You are the supreme controller of
the senses, and Your expansions of form are unlimited. You are the
greatest, and therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
PURPORT

This verse analytically differentiates the living entity from the
Supreme Lord. The form of the Lord and the form of the conditioned
soul are different because the Lord is always blissful whereas the condi-
tioned soul is always under the threefold miseries of the material world.
The Supreme Lord is sac-cid-4nanda-vigraha. He derives dnanda, bliss,
from His own self. The Lord’s body is transcendental, spiritual, but be-
cause the conditioned soul has a material body, he has many bodily and
mental troubles. The conditioned soul is always perturbed by attachment
and detachment, whereas the Supreme Lord is always free from such
dualities. The Lord is the supreme master of all the senses, whereas the
conditioned soul is controlled by the senses. The Lord is the greatest,
whereas the living entity is the smallest. The living entity is conditioned
by the waves of material nature, but the Supreme Lord is transcendental
to all actions and reactions. The expansions of the Supreme Lord’s body
are innumerable (advaitam acyutam anédim ananta-riipam), but the
conditioned soul is limited to only one form. From history we learn that a
conditioned soul, by mystic power, can sometimes expand into eight
forms, but the Lord’s bodily expansions are unlimited. This means that
the bodies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead have no beginning and

no end, unlike the bodies of the living entities.

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vacasy uparate ‘prapya
ya eko manasa saha
