116 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 20
bhih kham diso dyaur vivarah payodhayas
tiryan-nr-deva rsayo yad-dsata

tat—that; vémanam—incarnation of Lord Vamana; ripam—form;
avardhata—began to increase more and more; adbhutam—certainly
very wonderful; hareh—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
anantasya—of the unlimited; guna-traya-dtmakam—whose body is ex-
panded by the material energy, consisting of three modes (goodness, pas-
sion and ignorance); bhith—the land; kham—the sky; disah—all direc-
tions; dyauh—the planetary systems; vivardh—different holes of the
universe; payodhayah—great seas and oceans; tiryak—lower animals,
birds and beasts; nr—human beings; devah —demigods; rsayah—great
saintly persons; yat—wherein; dsata—lived.

TRANSLATION

The unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had
assumed the form of Vamana, then began increasing in size, acting
in terms of the material energy, until everything in the universe
was within His body, including the earth, the planetary systems,
the sky, the directions, the various holes in the universe, the seas,
the oceans, the birds, beasts, human beings, the demigods and the
great saintly persons.

PURPORT

Bali Maharaja wanted to give charity to Vamanadeva, but the Lord ex-
panded His body in such a way that He showed Bali Maharaja that every-
thing in the universe is already in His body. Actually, no one can give
anything to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for He is full in every-
thing. Sometimes we see a devotee offering Ganges water to the Ganges.
After taking his bath in the Ganges, a devotee takes a palmful of water
and offers it back to the Ganges. Actually, when one takes a palmful of
water from the Ganges, the Ganges does not lose anything, and similarly
if a devotee offers a palmful of water to the Ganges, the Ganges does not
increase in any way. But by such an offering, the devotee becomes
celebrated as a devotee of mother Ganges. Similarly, when we offer any-
thing with devotion and faith, what we offer does not belong to us, nor
does it enrich the opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But
