Text 30] The Demigods Appeal to the Lord 177
na yasya kascatititarti mayam
yaya jano muhyati veda nartham
tam nirjitatmatma-gunam paresam
namama bhiitesu samam carantam

na—not; yasya—of whom (the Supreme Personality of Godhead);
kasSca—anyone; atititarti—is able to overcome; maéyaém—the illusory
energy; yayd—by whom (by the illusory energy); janah—people in
general; muhyati—become bewildered; veda—understand; na—not;
artham—the aim of life; tam—unto Him (the Supreme Personality of
Godhead); nirjita—completely controlling; atmaé—the living entities;
Gtma-gunam—and His external energy; para-isam—the Lord, who is
transcendentally situated; namama—we offer our respectful obeisances;
bhiitesu—unto all living beings; samam—equally situated, or
equipoised; carantam—controlling or ruling them.

TRANSLATION

No one can overcome the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s il-
lusory energy [maya], which is so strong that it bewilders every-
one, making one lose the sense to understand the aim of life. That
same maya, however, is subdued by the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, who rules everyone and who is equally disposed toward
all living entities. Let us offer our obeisances unto Him.

PURPORT

The prowess of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, certainly
controls all living entities, so much so that the living entities have forgot-
ten the aim of life. Na te viduh svdrtha-gatim hi visnum: the living en-
tities have forgotten that the aim of life is to go back home, back to God-
head. The external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives
all conditioned souls what appears to be an opportunity to be happy
within this material world, but that is ma@yd; in other words, it is adream
that is never to be fulfilled. Thus every living being is illusioned by the
external energy of the Supreme Lord. That illusory energy is
undoubtedly very strong, but she is fully under the control of the tran-
scendental person who is described in this verse as paresam, the tran-
scendental Lord. The Lord is not a part of the material creation, but is
