SB 1.3.35 (1962)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 35
<dEbam janmani karmani hi akartur ajanasya cha
Varnayanti sma kavayo vedaguhyani hritpateh.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Ebam—thus, Janmani—birth, Karmani—activities, hi—certainly, akartur—of the nonactive, Ajanasya—of the unborn, Cha—and, Varnayanti—do describe, Sma—in the past, Kavayo—the learned, Vedaguhyani—undiscoverable by the Vedas, hritpateh—of the Lord of the heart.
TRANSLATION
Thus the learned men describe the births and activities of the unborn and non active which is undiscoverable even in the Vedic literatures. He is the Lord of the heart.
PURPORT
Both the Lord and the living entities are essentially all spiritual and therefore both of them are eternal and none of them have any birth and death. The difference is that the so called births and disappearance of the Lord are not equal to that of the living beings. The living being who are to take birth and then again accept death are so bound up by the law of material nature. But the so called appearance and disappearance of the Lord are not the actions of the material nature but they are a demonstration of the internal potency of the Lord. It is described by the great sages for the same purpose as self realisation. It is stated in the Bhagwat Geeta by the Lord that His so called birth in the material world and His activities are all transcendental. And simply on meditations on such activities of the Lord one can attain the same realisation of Brahman and thus become liberated from the material bondage. In the Srutis it is said that the birthless appears as taking birth. The Supreme has nothing to do but because He is omnipotent everything is performed by Him so naturally as if they are being done automatically. As a matter of fact the appearance and disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His different activities are all confidential even to the Vedic literatures but still they are displayed by the Lord for bestowing mercy upon the conditioned souls. We should always take advantage of such narration of the activities of the Lord and take advantage of meditation on Brahma in the most convenient and palatable form.