198 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 6

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BRI ANArAa SAAT: ARTA: |
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tvam eva bhagavann etac
chiva-saktyoh sva-riipayoh
visvam srjasi pasy atsi
kridann urna-pato yatha
tvam—you ;eva—certainly ; bhagavan—O my lord; etat— this; siva-saktyoh—
being situated in your auspicious energy; sva-rupayoh—by your personal
expansion; visvam—this universe; srjasi—create; pasi— maintain; atsi—annihi-
late; kridan—working; &rna-patah—spider’s web; yatha—just like.

TRANSLATION

My dear lord, you create this cosmic manifestation, maintain it and anni-
hilate it by expansion of your personality, exactly as a spider creates,
maintains and winds up its web.

PURPORT

In this verse the word siva-sakti is significant. Siva means auspicious, and
Sakti means energy. There are many types of energies of the Supreme
Lord, and all of them are auspicious. Brahma, Visnu and Maheésvara are
called gundvataras or incarnations of material qualities. In the material
world we compare these different incarnations from different angles of
vision, but since all of them are expansions of the supreme auspicious, all
of them are auspicious, although sometimes we consider one quality of
nature to be higher or lower than another. The mode of ignorance or
tamoguna is considered very much lower than the others, but in the
higher sense it is also auspicious. The example may be given herein that
the government has both an educational department and criminal depart-
ment. An outsider may consider the criminal department inauspicious,
but from the government’s point of view it is as important as the education
department, and therefore the government finances both departments
equally, without discrimination.

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ean att aatraeacy |
