Pradyumna:
- sa eva jīva-lokasya
- māyā-mohita-cetasaḥ
- vidhatse svena vīryeṇa
- śreyo dharmādi-lakṣaṇam
- (SB 1.7.24)
"And yet, though You are beyond the purview of the material energy, You execute the four principles of liberation characterized by religion and so on for the ultimate good of the conditioned souls."
Prabhupāda:
- sa eva jīva-lokasya
- māyā-mohita-cetasaḥ
- vidhatse svena vīryeṇa
- śreyo dharmādi-lakṣaṇam
- (SB 1.7.24)
So, saḥ, Kṛṣṇa, who is described in the previous verse, tvam ādyaḥ puruṣaḥ, the original person... Original person, Absolute Truth, that is described in the Vedānta-sūtra, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). Original person. Just like in our familywise, or guru-paramparā-wise, there is somebody, original person. So similarly, the whole creation, there is original person. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, aham āsam agre. Aham āsam agre. In the Vedic literature, eko nārāyaṇa āsīt. So eko nārāyaṇa āsīt, that is original person. And Kṛṣṇa says aham agre āsam. So He's the original person, ādyam. In the Bhagavad-gītā also it is said, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān puruṣam ādyam (BG 10.12).