Text 30] The Demigods Regain the Heavenly Planets 219
TRANSLATION

One who is subject to death cannot measure the glories of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Trivikrama, Lord Visnu, any
more than he can count the number of atoms on the entire planet
earth. No one, whether born already or destined to take birth, is
able to do this. This has been sung by the great sage Vasistha.

PURPORT

Vasistha Muni has given a mantra about Lord Visnu: na te visnor
Jayamano na jato mahimnah param anantam apa. No one can estimate
the extent of the uncommonly glorious activities of Lord Visnu. Unfor-
tunately, there are so-called scientists who are subject to death at every
moment but are trying to understand by speculation the wonderful cre-
ation of the cosmos. This is a foolish attempt. Long, long ago, Vasistha
Muni said that no one in the past could measure the glories of the Lord
and that no one can do so in the future. One must simply be satisfied with
seeing the glorious activities of the Supreme Lord’s creation. The Lord
therefore says in Bhagavad-gita (10.42), vistabhydham idam krtsnam
ekamsena sthito jagat: “With a single fragment of Myself, I pervade and
support this entire universe.” The material world consists of innumer-
able universes, each one full of innumerable planets, which are all con-
sidered to be products of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s material
energy. Yet this is only one fourth of God’s creation. The other three
fourths of creation constitute the spiritual world. Among the innumer-
able planets in only one universe, the so-called scientists cannot under-
stand even the moon and Mars, but they try to defy the creation of the
Supreme Lord and His uncommon energy. Such men have been de-
scribed as crazy. Niinarn pramattah kurute vikarma (Bhag. 5.5.4). Such
crazy men unnecessarily waste time, energy and money in attempting to
defy the glorious activities of Urukrama, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead.

TEXT 30
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