SB 2.4.12
TEXT 12
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TEXT
श्री शुक उवाच
नमः परस्मै पुरुषाय भूयसे सदुद्भवस्थाननिरोधलीलया । गृहीतशक्तित्रितयाय देहिनाम् अन्तर्भवायानुपलक्ष्यवर्त्मने ॥ १२ ॥ sri suka uvaca
namah parasmai purusaya bhuyase
sad-udbhava-sthana-nirodha-lilaya
grhita-sakti-tritayaya dehinam
antarbhavayanupalaksya-vartmane
namah-offering obeisances; parasmai-the Supreme; purusaya-Personality of Godhead; bhuyase-unto the complete whole; sad-udbhava-creation of the material world; sthana-its maintenance; nirodha-and its winding up; lilaya-by the pastime of; grhita-having accepted; sakti-power; tritayaya-three modes; dehinam-of all who possess material bodies; antarbhavaya-unto Him who resides within; anupalaksya-inconceivable; vartmane-one who has such ways.
TRANSLATION
Sukadeva Gosvami said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead who, for the creation of the material world, accepts the three modes of nature. He is the complete whole residing within the body of everyone, and His ways are inconceivable.
PURPORT
This material world is a manifestation of the three modes of goodness, passion and ignorance, and the Supreme Lord, for the creation, maintenance and destruction of the material world, accepts three predominating forms of Brahma, Visnu and Saṅkara (Siva). As Visnu He enters into every body materially created. As Garbhodakasayi Visnu He enters into every universe, and as Ksirodakasayi Visnu He enters in the body of every living being. Lord Sri Krsna, being the origin of all Visnu-tattvas, is addressed here as parah puman, or Purusottama, as described in the Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 15.18), or the complete whole. The purusavataras are therefore His plenary expansions. Bhakti-yoga is the only process by which one can become competent to know Him. Because the empiric philosophers and mystic yogis cannot conceive of the Personality of Godhead, He is called anupalaksya-vartmane, the Lord of the inconceivable way, or bhakti-yoga.
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