CHAPTER ONE

The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone

In this chapter, in response to a question by Maharaja Pariksit, Sukadeva
Gosvami gives his conclusions concerning how the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, although the Supersoul, friend and protector of everyone,
killed the Daityas, the demons, for the sake of Indra, the King of heaven.
In his statements, he totally refutes the arguments of people in general
who accuse the Supreme Lord of partiality. Sukadeva Gosvami proves
that because the body of the conditioned soul is infected by the three
qualities of nature, dualities arise such as enmity and friendship, attach-
ment and detachment. For the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
however, there are no such dualities. Even eternal time cannot control
the activities of the Lord. Eternal time is created by the Lord, and it acts
under His control. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, therefore, is al-
ways transcendental to the influence of the modes of nature, mdyd, the
Lord’s external energy, which acts in creation and annihilation. Thus all
the demons killed by the Supreme Lord attain salvation immediately.

The second question raised by Pariksit Maharaja concerns how Sis-
upala, although inimical toward Krsna from his very childhood and al-
ways blaspheming Krsna, attained salvation in oneness when Krsna
killed him. Sukadeva Gosvami explains that because of their offenses at
the feet of devotees, two attendants of the Lord in Vaikuntha named Jaya
and Vijaya became Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksa in Satya-yuga, Ravana
and Kumbhakarna in the next yuga, Treté-yuga, and Sigupala and Dan-
tavakra at the end of Dvapara-yuga. Because of their fruitive acts, Jaya
and Vijaya agreed to become the Lord’s enemies, and when killed in that
mentality, they attained salvation in oneness. Thus even if one thinks of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead in envy, he attains salvation. What
then is to be said of devotees who always engage in the Lord’s service
with love and faith?
