Text 28] The Lord Incarnates as Mohini-mirti 23

evam surdsura-ganah sama-desa-kdla-
hetv-artha-karma-matayo ‘pi phale vikalpah

tatramrtam sura-ganah phalam afjasapur
yat-pada-parnkaja-rajah-srayanan na daityah

evam—thus; sura—the demigods; asura-ganadh—and the demons;
sama—equal; desa—place; kala—time; hetu—cause; artha—objective;
karma—activities; matayah—ambition; api—although one; phale—in
the result; vikalpah—not equal; tatra—thereupon; amrtam—nectar;
sura-ganah—the demigods; phalam—the result; afjasd—easily, totally
or directly; Gpuh—achieved; yat—because of; padda-pankaja—of the
lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; rajah—of the saffron
dust; srayanat—because of receiving benedictions or taking shelter;
na—not; daityah—the demons.

TRANSLATION

The place, the time, the cause, the purpose, the activity and the
ambition were all the same for both the demigods and the demons,
but the demigods achieved one result and the demons another. Be-
cause the demigods are always under the shelter of the dust of the
Lord’s lotus feet, they could very easily drink the nectar and get its
result. The demons, however, not having sought shelter at the
lotus feet of the Lord, were unable to achieve the result they
desired.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita (4.11) it is said, ye yatha mam prapadyante tams
tathaiva bhajamy aham: the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the
supreme judge who rewards or punishes different persons according to
their surrender unto His lotus feet. Therefore it can actually be seen that
although karmis and bhaktas may work in the same place, at the same
time, with the same energy and with the same ambition, they achieve
different results. The karmis transmigrate through different bodies in
the cycle of birth and death, sometimes going upward and sometimes
downward, thus suffering the results of their actions in the karma-
cakra, the cycle of birth and death. The devotees, however, because of
fully surrendering at the lotus feet of the Lord, are never baffled in their
attempts. Although externally they work almost like the karmis, the
