Text 39] Purusa-siikta Confirmed 323
TEXT 39
TTY AL: TEI: HY BEY TATA: |
THAT 8 AoA TAA 38M
sa esa Gdyah purnsah
kalpe kalpe srjaty ajah
atmatmany atmanatmanam
sa sarin yacchati pati ca

sah—He; esah—the very; ddyah—the original Personality of Godhead;
purusah—the Maha-Visnu incarnation, a plenary portion of Govinda, Lord
Krsna; kalpe kalpe—in each and every millennium; srjati—creates; ajah—
the unborn; atma—self; atmani—upon the self; atmana—by His own self;
atmanam—own self; sah—He; samyacchati—absorbs; pati—maintains; ca—
also.

TRANSLATION

“That Supreme original Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krsna, ex-
panding His plenary portion as Maha-Visnu, the first incarnation, creates
this manifested cosmos, but He is unborn. The creation, however, takes
place in Him, and the material substance, as well as the manifestations,
are all Himself, which He maintains for some time and again absorbs into
Himself again.

PURPORT

The creation is nondifferent from the Lord, and still He is not in the

creation. This is explained in the Bhagavad-gita as follows:
maya tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-mirtinad
mat-sthani sarva-bhiitani na cadham tesv avasthitah
(Bg. 9.4)

The impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth is also a form of the
Lord called avyakta-mirti. Murti means form, but because His impersonal
feature is inexplicable by our limited senses, He is the avyakta-murti form,
and in that inexplicable form of the Lord the whole creation is resting, or,
in other words, the whole creation is the Lord Himself, and the creation is
