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{{terms|"People only imagine that You are partial"|"You have no specific object of favor"|"dvesyas ca yasmin visama matir nrnam"|"na veda kascid bhagavams cikirsitam"|"na yasya kascid dayito 'sti karhicid"|"no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes"|"nor do You have any object of envy"|"tavehamanasya nrnam vidambanam"}}
{{notes|VedaBase query: "1.8.29" or "People only imagine that You are partial" or "You have no specific object of favor" or "dvesyas ca yasmin visama matir nrnam" or "na veda kascid bhagavams cikirsitam" or "na yasya kascid dayito sti karhicid" or "no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes" or "nor do You have any object of envy" or "tavehamanasya nrnam vidambanam"}}
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[[Category:Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 01 - Cited Verses]]
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_1" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3>
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<div id="SB1829_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="294" link="SB 1.8.29" link_text="SB 1.8.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.8.29|SB 1.8.29, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Lord, no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes, which appear to be human and are so misleading. You have no specific object of favor, nor do You have any object of envy. People only imagine that You are partial.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Teachings of Queen Kuntī, </p>
<p> Chapter 12: Bewildering Pastimes </p>
<p>The Lord's mercy upon the fallen souls is equally distributed. He has no one as the specific object of hostility. The very conception of the Personality of Godhead as a human being is misleading. His pastimes appear to be exactly like a human being's, but actually they are transcendental and without any tinge of material contamination. He is undoubtedly known as partial to His pure devotees, but in fact He is never partial, as much as the sun is never partial to anyone. By utilizing the sun rays, sometimes even the stones become valuable, whereas a blind man cannot see the sun, although there are enough sun rays before him. Darkness and light are two opposite conceptions, but this does not mean that the sun is partial in distributing its rays. The sun rays are open to everyone, but the capacities of the receptacles differ. Foolish people think that devotional service is flattering the Lord to get special mercy. Factually the pure devotees who are engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord are not a mercantile community. A mercantile house renders service to someone in exchange for values. The pure devotee does not render service unto the Lord for such exchange, and therefore the full mercy of the Lord is open for him. Suffering and needy men, inquisitive persons or philosophers make temporary connections with the Lord to serve a particular purpose. When the purpose is served, there is no more relation with the Lord. A suffering man, if he is pious at all, prays to the Lord for his recovery. But as soon as the recovery is over, in most cases the suffering man no longer cares to keep any connection with the Lord. The mercy of the Lord is open for him, but he is reluctant to receive it. That is the difference between a pure devotee and a mixed devotee. Those who are completely against the service of the Lord are considered to be in abject darkness, those who ask for the Lord's favor only at the time of necessity are partial recipients of the mercy of the Lord, and those who are cent percent engaged in the service of the Lord are full recipients of the mercy of the Lord. Such partiality in receiving the Lord's mercy is relative to the recipient, and it is not due to the partiality of the all-merciful Lord.</p>
<p>When the Lord descends on this material world by His all-merciful energy, He plays like a human being, and therefore it appears that the Lord is partial to His devotees only, but that is not a fact. Despite such apparent manifestation of partiality, His mercy is equally distributed. In the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra all persons who died in the fight before the presence of the Lord got salvation without the necessary qualifications because death before the presence of the Lord purifies the passing soul from the effects of all sins, and therefore the dying man gets a place somewhere in the transcendental abode. Somehow or other if someone puts himself open in the sun rays, he is sure to get the requisite benefit both by heat and by ultraviolet rays. Therefore, the conclusion is that the Lord is never partial. It is wrong for the people in general to think of Him as partial.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 4.204|CC Antya 4.204, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"After thus causing these itching sores, You examined Sanātana Gosvāmī. No one can understand Your transcendental pastimes."</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB1829LosAngelesApril211973_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="220" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee:</p>
:na veda kaścid bhagavaṁś cikīrṣitaṁ
:tavehamānasya nṛṇāṁ viḍambanam
:na yasya kaścid dayito 'sti karhicid
:dveṣyaś ca yasmin viṣamā matir nṛṇām
:([[Vanisource:SB 1.8.29|SB 1.8.29]])
<p>"O Lord, no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes which appear to be human and so are misleading. You have no specific object of favor, nor do You have any object of envy. People only imagine that You are partial."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So the Lord says in the Bhagavad-gītā: paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām ([[Vanisource:BG 4.8 (1972)|BG 4.8]]). So two purposes. When God incarnates, He has got two mission. One mission is paritrāṇāya sādhūnām and vināśāya duṣ... One mission is to deliver the faithful devotees, sādhu. Sādhu means saintly persons.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1829LosAngelesApril211973_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="220" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These are explained in the Bhāgavatam, Uddhava explained to Vidura that Kṛṣṇa is so kind, God is so kind, even the person who wanted to kill Him with poison, she was accepted as mother. Such a kind God, Kṛṣṇa, that "Whom shall I worship others, except Kṛṣṇa?" This example is given. So actually Kṛṣṇa has no enemy. Here it is said: na yasya kaścid dayitaḥ. Dayitaḥ means favor. Nobody is favored. Na yasya kaścid dayito 'sti karhicid dveṣyaś ca. And nobody is His enemy. But who can be His enemy, who can be His friend?</p>
<p>Suppose we create friends. We expect some benediction or some profit from the friend and enemy means we expect some harmful activities by the enemy. But Kṛṣṇa is so perfect that nobody can do any harm to Kṛṣṇa, neither anybody can give anything to Kṛṣṇa. So where is the necessity of friend and enemy? There is no necessity.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1829LosAngelesApril211973_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="220" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The rascal thinks like that. "Because Kṛṣṇa has come, descended, avatāra, so I am also avatāra." This rascaldom is going on. So here it is said: na veda kaścid bhagavaṁś cikīrṣitam. "Nobody knows what is the purpose of Your appearance and disappearance. Nobody knows." So tava, tava īhamānasya nṛṇāṁ viḍambanam. It is bewildering. Nobody can understand what is the real purpose. The real purpose is His free will. "Let Me go and see." He doesn't require to come to kill the demons. There are so many agents that if there is a strong wind, thousands of demons can be killed in a moment. So Kṛṣṇa does not require to come to kill the demons. And He does not require also to come to give protection to the devotee. By His simply will, everything is there. But He takes a pleasure pastime, "Let Me go and see."</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1829LosAngelesApril211973_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="220" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Los Angeles, April 21, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">At the same time, to teach us that becoming enemy, enemy of Kṛṣṇa is not very profitable. Better become friend. That will be profitable. Therefore it is said that: na veda kaścid bhagavaṁś cikīrṣitam. "Nobody knows what is the purpose of Your appearance and disappearance." Tava īhamānasya nṛṇāṁ viḍambanam. "You are in this world just like ordinary human being. This is bewildering." Therefore ordinary man cannot believe. "How God can become ordinary person like...?" Kṛṣṇa is playing. Although He was not playing ordinary person. He was playing as God. Wherever there was necessity...</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1829MayapuraOctober91974_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="221" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Mayapura, October 9, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Mayapura, October 9, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Mayapura, October 9, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Mayapura, October 9, 1974]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nitāi: "O Lord, no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes, which appear to be human and are so misleading. You have no specific object of favor, nor do You have any object of envy. People only imagine that You are partial."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda:</p>
:na veda kaścid bhagavaṁś cikīrṣitaṁ
:tavehamānasya nṛṇāṁ viḍambanam
:na yasya kaścid dayito 'sti karhicid
:dveṣyaś ca yasmin viṣamā matir nṛṇām
:([[Vanisource:SB 1.8.29|SB 1.8.29]])
<p>So Kuntīdevī is clarifying the matter that people may think that Kṛṣṇa was partial to the Pāṇḍava family and He was envious to the Kurus because He always took part on behalf of the Pāṇḍavas. That has been described. So just like worldly men, we, we make some friends, and we make some enemies. To somebody we are envious, and to somebody we are very friendly. This is material nature.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1829MayapuraOctober91974_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="221" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Mayapura, October 9, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Mayapura, October 9, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Mayapura, October 9, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.8.29 -- Mayapura, October 9, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Unless we understand these things, why Kṛṣṇa came, why He took part in the battlefield—and there are so many other things ordinarily done—then, if we simply take Kṛṣṇa as ordinary human being... Mūḍha, avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam.. ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]).. Because He's playing the part of human being, if somebody derides, mūḍha, then it is viḍambanam-he'll be cheated. That is explained here: tavehamānasya nṛṇāṁ viḍambanam. Viḍambana. They cannot understand. The devotees can understand. Kuntī could understand that "Although Kṛṣṇa is playing the part of human being, He is for everyone's good. He simply presents. As enemy or as friend, it is beneficial." Either He is playing the part of enemy or as friend, it is the same thing because He is absolute. In the Absolute world there is no such thing: "This is good; this is bad." Everything good in the absolute world. Kṛṣṇa's killing is as good as Kṛṣṇa's saving. It is the same thing.</p>
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