Text 12] The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone 19

Time is within His control, for He creates time to act in a certain way; He
is not working under the control of time. The creation of the material
world is one of the Lord’s pastimes. Everything is fully under His con-
trol. Since creation takes place when rajo-guna is prominent, the Lord
creates the necessary time to give facilities for rajo-guna. Similarly, He
also creates the necessary times for maintenance and annihilation. Thus
this verse establishes that the Lord is not under the limitations of time.

As stated in the Brahma-samhita, isvarah paramah krsnah: Krsna is
the supreme controller. Sac-cid-dnanda-vigrahah: He possesses a
blissful, spiritual body. Anddih: He is not subordinate to anything. As
the Lord confirms in Bhagavad-gita (7.7), mattah paratararn nanyat
kitcid asti dhanafjaya: ““O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no
truth superior to Me.” Nothing can be above Krsna, for He is the con-
troller and creator of everything.

The Mayavadi philosophers say that this material world is mithyd,
false, and that one should therefore not bother about this mithyd creation
(brahma satyam Jagan mithya). But this is not correct. Here it is said,
satya-krt: whatever is created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
satyam param, cannot be called mithya. The cause of the creation is
satya, true, so how can the effect of the cause be mithyd? The very word
satya-krt is used to establish that everything created by the Lord is fac-
tual, never false. The creation may be temporary, but it is not false.

TEXT 12

ToT waaft ae efra
ad gudtetiaaacaa: |
THAR ——|-aT
THAR TAME AA: 112 2
ya esa rajann api kala isita
sattvam surdnikam ivaidhayaty atah

tat-pratyanikan asuran sura-priyo
rajas-tamaskan praminoty urusravah

yah—which; esah—this; rajan—O King; api—even; kalah—time;
isita—the Supreme Lord; sattvam—the mode of goodness; sura-
