Texts 40-41 ] Purusa-sikta Confirmed 325

Garbhodakasgayi Visnu, He creates Brahma, Siva and many other demigods
for maintenance of the universe and again absorbs the whole thing into His
person, as is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita:

sarva-bhiitani kaunteya prakrtim vanti mamikam
kalpaksaye punas tani kalpadau visrjamy aham.

(Bg. 9.7)

“O son of Kunti, when the kalpa or the duration of the life of Brahma is
ended, then all the created manifestations enter into My prakrti, or energy,
and again, when I desire, the same creation takes place by My personal
energy.”

The conclusion is that these are all displays of the Lord’s inconceivable
personal energies only, of which no one can have any full information, and
this point we have already discussed.

TEXTS 40-41

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visuddham kevalam jianam
pratyak samyag avasthitam

satyam piirnam anady-antarh
nirgunam nityam advayam

rse vidanti munayah
prasantatmendriyasayah

yada tad evasat-tarkais
tiro-dhiyeta viplutam

visuddham—without any material tinge; kevalam—pure and perfect;
jidnam—knowledge; pratyak—all-pervading ;sariyak—in fullness; avasthitam
—situated; satyam—truth; pirnam—absolute,; anadi—without any beginning;
antam—and so also without any end; nirgunam—devoid of material modes;
