SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

8 Srimad-Bhigavatam [Canto 7, Ch.lTRANSLATIONThe Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vi!}J}U, is always transcendentalto material qualities, and therefore He is called nirgul}a, orwithout qualities. Because Be is unborn, Be does not have a materialbody to be subjected to attachment and hatred. Although theLord is always above material existence, through His spiritualpotency He appeared and acted like an ordinary human being, acceptingduties and obligations, apparently like a conditioned soul.PURPORTSo-called attachment, detachment and obligations pertain to the materialnature, which is an emanation from the Supreme Personality ofGodhead, but whenever the Lord descends and acts in this materialworld, He does so in His spiritual position. Although His activities materiallyappear different, spiritually they are absolute and nondifferent.Thus it is an imposition upon the Supreme Lord to say that He is enviousof anyone or friendly to anyone.In Bhagavad-gita (9.11) the Lord clearly says, avajananti mammiii)hii manim tanum asritam: "Fools deride Me when I descend in ahuman form." l(r!}Qa appears on this earth or within this universe withoutany change in His spiritual body or spiritual qualities. Indeed, He isnever influenced by the material qualities. He is always free from suchqualities, but He appears to act under material influence. This understandingis aropita, or an imposition. Therefore l(r!}Qa says, janmakarma ca me divyam: whatever He does, being always transcendental,has nothing to do with material qualities. Evam yo vetti tattvatab,: onlydevotees can understand the truth of how He acts. The fact is that l(r!}Qais never partial to anyone. He is always equal to everyone, but because ofimperfect vision, influenced by material qualities, one imposes materialqualities upon l(r!}Qa, and when one does so he becomes a miii)ha, a fool.When one can properly understand the truth, one becomes devoted andnirgw:za, free from material qualities. Simply by understanding the activitiesof l(r!}Qa one can become transcendental, and as soon as one istranscendental he is fit to be transferred to the transcendental world.Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti so 'rjuna: one who under-