298 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 6

yasmat—from whom; andam—universal globes; virat—and the gigantic
universal form; jajie—appeared; bhitta—elements; indriya—senses; guna-
atmakah—qualitative; tat dravyam—the universes and the universal form,
etc.; atyagat—surpassed; visvam—all the universes; gobhih—by the rays;
siiryah—the sun; tva—like; dtapan—distributed rays and heat.

TRANSLATION

From that Personality of Godhead, all the universal globes and the
universal form with all material elements, qualities, and senses are gener-
ated. Yet He is aloof from such material manifestations, like the sun, which
is separate from its rays and heat.

PURPORT

The supreme truth has been ascertained in the previous verse as purusa
or the purusottama, the Supreme Person. The Absolute Person is the isvara
or the supreme controller by His different energies. The ekapad-vibhiti
manifestation of the material energy of the Lord is just like one of the
many mistresses of the Lord, by whom the Lord is not so much attracted,
as indicated in the language of the Gita (bhinna prakrtih). But the region
of the tripdd-vibhiti, being a pure spiritual manifestation of the energy of
the Lord, is, so to speak, more attractive to Him. The Lord, therefore,
generates the material manifestations by impregnating the material energy,
and then, within the manifestation, He expands Himself as the gigantic
form of the visva-riipa. The visva-riipa, as it was shown to Arjuna, is not
the original form of the Lord. The original form of the Lord is the tran-
scendental form of Purusottama, or Krsna Himself. It is very nicely ex-
plained herein that He expands Himself just like the sun. The sun expands
itself by its terrible heat and rays, yet the sun is always aloof from such
rays and heat. The impersonalist takes into consideration the rays of the
Lord without any information of the tangible, transcendental, eternal
form of the Lord, known as Krsna. Therefore Krsna, in His supreme
personal form, with two hands and flute, is bewildering for the imperson-
alists who can accommodate only the gigantic visva-ripa of the Lord. They
should know that the rays of the sun are secondary to the sun, and simi-
larly the impersonal gigantic form of the Lord is also secondary to the
personal form as Purusottama. The Brahma-samhita confirms this state-
ment as follows:
