naitac citraḿ bhagavati
hy anante jagad-īśvare
ota-protam idaḿ yasmiḿs
tantuṣv ańga yathā paṭaḥ
na -- not; etat -- this; citram -- surprising; bhagavati -- for the Personality of Godhead; hi -- indeed; anante -- who is the unlimited; jagat-isvare -- the Lord of the the universe; ota-protam -- spread out horizontally and vertically; idam -- this universe; yasmin -- upon whom; tantushu -- upon its threads; anga -- my dear Parikshit; yatha -- just as, patah -- a cloth.
My dear Parikshit, that Lord Balarama killed Dhenukasura is not such a wonderful thing, considering that He is the unlimited Personality of Godhead, the controller of the entire universe. Indeed, the entire cosmos rests upon Him just as a woven cloth rests upon its own horizontal and vertical threads.
Unfortunate persons cannot appreciate the blissful pastimes of the Supreme Lord. In this connection Srila Jiva Gosvami explains that the Supreme Lord possesses unlimited potency and strength, as expressed here by the word anante. The Lord exhibits a tiny fraction of His power according to the need of a particular situation. Lord Balarama desired to vanquish the gang of demoniac asses who had unlawfully seized the Talavana forest, and therefore He exhibited just enough divine opulence to easily kill Dhenukasura and the other demons.
