Text 27]
Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
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TRANSLATION
In spite of that, my Lord, I am praying to You, kindly to fulfill my desire. May I please be informed how, in spite of Your transcendental form, You assume the mundane form, although You have no such form at all.
TEXT 27
यथाऽऽत्ममायायोगेन नानाशस्त्युपवृद्धितम् । विलुम्पन् विसृजन् गृह्णन् विभ्रदात्मानमात्मना ॥२७॥
yathātma-māyā-yogena nānā-śakty-upabṛṁhitam vilumpan visṛjan gṛhṇan bibhrad ātmānam ātmanā
yathā—as much as; ātma—own; māyā—potency; yogena—by combination; nānā—various; śakti—energy; upabṛṁhitam—by combination and permutation; vilumpan—in the matter of annihilation; visṛjan—in the matter of generation; gṛhṇan—in the matter of acceptance; bibhrat—in the matter of maintenance; ātmānam—own self; ātmanā—by the self.
TRANSLATION
And how You, by Your own Self, manifest different energies for annihilation, generation, acceptance and maintenance by combination and permutation.
PURPORT
The whole manifestation is the Lord Himself by diffusion of His different energies only, namely the internal, external and marginal, just as the sunlight is the manifestation of the energy of the sun planet. Such energy is simultaneously one and different from the Lord, just as the sunshine is simultaneously one and different from the sun planet. The energies are acting by combination and permutation by the indication of the Lord, and the acting agents, like Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva, are also different incarna-