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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.8.23
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 23
- yathātma-tantro bhagavān
- vikrīḍaty ātma-māyayā
- visṛjya vā yathā māyām
- udāste sākṣivad vibhuḥ
yathāas — as; ātmaindependent-tantraḥindependent — independent; bhagavānthe Personality of Godhead — the Personality of Godhead; vikrīḍatienjoys His pastimes — enjoys His pastimes; ātmaby His internal potency-māyayāby His internal potency — by His internal potency; visṛjyagiving up — giving up; vāas also — as also; yathāas He desires — as He desires; māyāmthe external potency — the external potency; udāsteremains — remains; sākṣivatjust as the witness — just as the witness; vibhuḥthe almighty — the almighty.
The independent Personality of Godhead enjoys His pastimes by His internal potency and at the time of annihilation gives them up to the external potency, and He remains a witness to it all.
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, being the Supreme Personality of Godhead and fountainhead of all other incarnations, is the only independent person. He enjoys His pastimes by creation as He desires and gives them up to the external energy at the time of annihilation. By His internal potency only, He kills the demon Pūtanā, even though enjoying His pastimes in the lap of His mother Yaśodā. And when He desires to leave this world He creates the pastimes of killing His own family members (Yadu-kula) and remains unaffected by such annihilation. He is the witness of everything that is happening, and yet He has nothing to do with anything. He is independent in every respect. Mahārāja Parīkṣit desired to know more perfectly, for a pure devotee ought to know well.