Adi-lila, Chapter 5 437

PURPORT

The symptoms of the purusa are described in Laghu-bhdgavatdmrta. While de-
scribing the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the author has
quoted from the Visau Purdna (6.8.59), where it is said: ‘‘Let me offer my respectful
obeisances unto Purusottama, Lord Krsna, who is always free from the contamination
of the six material dualities; whose plenary expansion, Maha-Visnu, glances over
matter to create the cosmic manifestation; who expands Himself in various transcen-
dental forms, all of which are one and the same; who is the master of all living
entities; who is always free and liberated from the contamination of material
energy; and who, when He appears in this material world, seems one of us, although
He has an eternally spiritual, blissful, transcendental form.’’ In summarizing this
statement, RGpa Gosvami has concluded that the plenary expansion of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead who acts in cooperation with the material energy is called
the purusa.

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visnos tu trini rupdni
purusdkhyany atho viduh
eka tu mahatah srastr
dvitiyarmh tv anda-samsthitam
trtiyarh sarva-bhita-stham
tani jnatva vimucyate

SYNONYMS
visnoh—of Lord Visnu; tu—certainly; trip/—three; rupadni—forms; purusa-dkhyGni
—celebrated as the purusa; atho—how; viduh—they know; ekam—one of them; tu—
but; mahatah srastr—the creator of the total material energy; dvitiyam—the second;
tu—but; anda-sarmsthitam—situated within the universe; trtiyam—the third; sarva-
bhita-stham—within the hearts of all living entities; tdni—these three; jridtva—
knowing; vimucyate—one becomes liberated.

TRANSLATION

“Visnu has three forms called purusas. The first, Maha-Visnu, is the creator of
the total material energy [mahat], the second is Garbhodasayi, who is situated
within each universe, and the third is Ksirodasayi, who lives in the heart of every
living being. He who knows these three becomes liberated from the clutches of
maya.”

PURPORT

This verse appears in the Laghu-bhagavatamrta (Piirva-khanda, 33), where it has
been quoted from the Sdtvata Tantra.
