Text 8] The Demigods and Demons Declare a Truce 209

rajo-guna and tamo-guna); nirvana-sukha-arnavéya—unto the ocean
of eternal bliss, beyond material existence; anoh animne—smaller than
the atom; apariganya-dhamne—whose bodily features are never to be
conceived by material speculation; mahd-anubhavaya—whose existence
is inconceivable; namah—offering our obeisances; namah—again offer-
ing our obeisances; te—unto You.

TRANSLATION

Lord Brahma said: Although You are never born, Your ap-
pearance and disappearance as an incarnation never cease. You are
always free from the material qualities, and You are the shelter of
transcendental bliss resembling an ocean. Eternally existing in
Your transcendental form, You are the supreme subtle of the most
extremely subtle. We therefore offer our respectful obeisances
unto You, the Supreme, whose existence is inconceivable.

PURPORT
The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (4.6):

ajo ‘pi sann avyayatma
bhittanam isvaro ’pi san

prakrtim svam adhisthaya
sambhavamy atma-mdyaya

‘Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates,
and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every
millennium in My original transcendental form.” In the following verse

in Bhagavad-gita (4.7), the Lord says:

yada yada hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bharata

abhyutthanam adharmasya
tadatmanam srjamy aham

‘Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O de-
scendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time |
descend Myself.”’ Thus although the Supreme Lord is unborn, there is no
