Text 27] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 497

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

TASHA AA ATATTITSETy |
fargrag Fama Ted Paar III

yathatma-maya-yogena
nana-sakty-upabrmhitam

vilumpan visrjan grhnan
bibhrad atmanam atmana

yatha—as much as ;atma—own;mdaya— potency; yogena—by combination;
nana—various; Sak ti—energy ; upabrmhitam—by combination and permuta-
tion; vilumpan—in the matter of annihilation; visrjan—in the matter of
generation; grhnan—in the matter of acceptance; bibhrat—in the matter of
maintenance; atmanam—own self; atmana—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 differ-
ent 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 Brahma, Visnu and Siva, are also different incarna-
