SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 35] The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone 47TRANSLATIONThe bodies of the inhabitants of VaikuJ.l!ha are completelyspiritual, having nothing to do with the material body, senses orlife air. Therefore, kindly explain how associates of the Personalityof Godhead were cursed to descend in material bodies likeordinary persons.PURPORTThis very significant question would be difficult for an ordinary personto answer, but Narada Muni, being an authority, could answer it.Therefore Maharaja Yudhihira inquired from him, saying, etadiikhyiitum arhasi: "only you can explain the reason." From authoritativesources it can be discerned that associates of Lord ViI).u who descendfrom Vaikul).ha do not actually fall. They come with the purpose offulfilling the desire of the Lord, and their descent to this material worldis comparable to that of the Lord. The Lord comes to this material worldthrough the agency of His internal potency, and similarly, when a devoteeor associate of the Lord descends to this material world, he does sothrough the action of the spiritual energy. Any pastime conducted by theSupreme Personality of Godhead is an arrangement by yogamiiyii, notmahiimiiyii. Therefore it is to be understood that when Jaya and Vijayadescended to this material world, they came because there was somethingto be done for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Otherwise it is a factthat no one falls from Vaikul).ha.Of course, a living entity who desires siiyujya-mukti remains inl