अपरिमिता ध्रुवास्तनुभृतो यदि सर्वगता- स्तर्हि न शास्यतेति नियमो ध्रुव नेतरथा । अजनि च यन्मयं तदविमुच्य नियन्तृ भवेत् सममनुजानतां यदमतं मतदुष्टतया ॥ ३० ॥
aparimitā dhruvās tanu-bhṛto yadi sarva-gatās tarhi na śāsyateti niyamo dhruva netarathā ajani ca yan-mayaṁ tad avimucya niyantṛ bhavet samam anujānatāṁ yad amataṁ mata-duṣṭatayā
- aparimitāḥ
- countless
- dhruvāḥ
- permanent
- tanu-bhṛtaḥ
- the embodied living entities
- yadi
- if
- sarva-gatāḥ
- omnipresent
- tarhi
- then
- na
- not
- śāsyatā
- sovereignty
- iti
- such
- niyamaḥ
- rule
- dhruva
- O unchanging one
- na
- not
- itarathā
- otherwise
- ajani
- was generated
- ca
- and
- yat-mayam
- from whose substance
- tat
- from that
- avimucya
- not separating itself
- niyantṛ
- regulator
- bhavet
- must be
- samam
- equally present
- anujānatām
- of those who supposedly know
- yat
- which
- amatam
- misunderstood
- mata
- of what is known
- duṣṭatayā
- because of the imperfection
If the countless living entities were all-pervading and possessed forms that never changed, You could not possibly be their absolute ruler, O immutable one. But since they are Your localized expansions and their forms are subject to change, You do control them. Indeed, that which supplies the ingredients for the generation of something is necessarily its controller because a product never exists apart from its ingredient cause. It is simply illusion for someone to think that he knows the Supreme Lord, who is equally present in each of His expansions, since whatever knowledge one gains by material means must be imperfect.