Text 2] Brahma’s Prayers for Creative Energy 333

TEXT 2

et | aXaqaabraigaa
vafarqaaa: acaqwery |

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Taaraaeaceataagq | 2 tl

rupam yad etad avabodha-rasodayena
Sasvan-nivrtta-tamasah sad-anugrahaya
adau grhitam avatara-sataika-bijam
yan nabhi-padma-bhavanad aham avir asam

ripam—form; yal—which; etat—that; avabodha-rasa—of Your internal
potency; udayena—with the manifestation; sasvat—forever; nivrtta—freed
from; tamasah— material contamination; sat-anugrahaya—for the sake of the
devotees; ddau— original in the creative energy of matter; grhitam—
accepted; avatdra—of incarnations; Sata-eka-bijam—the root cause of
hundreds; yat—that which; ndbhi-padma—the navel lotus flower;
bhavanat—from the home; aham— myself; avih dsam—generated.

TRANSLATION

The form which I see is eternally freed from material contamination and
has advented to show mercy to the devotees as a manifestation of internal
potency. This incarnation is the origin of many other incarnations, and I
am born from the lotus flower grown from Your navel home.

PURPORT

The three deities, Brahma, Visnu, and Mahesvara (Siva), the executive
heads of the three modes of material nature (passion, goodness and igno-
rance), are all generated from Garbhodakasayi Visnu, who is described here-
in by Brahma. From the Ksirodakasayi Visnu, many Visnu incarnations
expand at different ages in the duration of the cosmic manifestation.
They are expanded only for the transcendental happiness of the pure
devotees. The incarnations of Visnu, who appear at different ages and
times, are never to be compared to the conditioned souls. The Visnu-
tattvas are not to be compared to, nor are they on the same level as,
deities like Brahma and Siva. Anyone who compares them is called a
pasandi, or infidel. Tamasah, mentioned herein, is the material nature,
and the spiritual nature has a completely separate existence from tamah.
