Text 26] The Demigods Appeal to the Lord 169
You. You are the supreme master of everyone, and therefore You
are worshipable for everyone. We offer our respectful obeisances
unto You.
PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not anything of material cre-
ation. Everything material must change from one form to another —for
example, from earth to earthen pot and from earthen pot to earth again.
All our creations are temporary, impermanent. The Supreme Personality
of Godhead, however, is eternal, and similarly the living entities, who
are parts of Him, are also eternal (mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhiitah
sanatanah). The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sandtana, eternal,
and the individual living entities are also eternal. The difference is that
Krsna, or God, is the supreme eternal, whereas the individual souls are
minute, fragmental eternals. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (13.3),
ksetrajnam capi mam viddhi sarva-ksetresu bharata. Although the Lord
is a living being and the individual souls are living beings, the Supreme
Lord, unlike the individual souls, is vibhu, all-pervading, and ananta,
unlimited. The Lord is the cause of everything. The living entities are in-
numerable, but the Lord is one. No one is greater than Him, and no one
is equal to Him. Thus the Lord is the supreme worshipable object, as
understood from the Vedic mantras (na tat-samas cabhyadhikas ca
dréyate). The Lord is supreme because no one can evaluate Him by men-
tal speculation or jugglery of words. The Lord can travel more quickly
than the mind. In the sruti-mantras of Isopanisad it is said:

anejad ekari manaso javiyo
nainad deva @pnuvan piirvam arsat
tad dhavato ’nyan atyeti tisthat
tasminn apo matarisva dadhati

‘Although fixed in His abode, the Personality of Godhead is swifter than
the mind and can overcome all others running. The powerful demigods
cannot approach Him. Although in one place, He controls those who sup-
ply the air and rain. He surpasses all in excellence.” (Isopanisad 4) Thus
the Supreme is never to be equaled by the subordinate living entities.

Because the Lord is situated in everyone’s heart and the individual liv-
ing entity is not, never should the individual living entity be equated
