Text 44] Brahma’s Prayers for Creative Energy 383

sarva-veda-mayenedam
atmana”’tma’’tma-yonina
prajah srja yatha-purvam
yas ca mayy anuserate
sarva—all; veda-mayena—under complete Vedic wisdom; idam—this;
atmana—by the body ;atma— you;atma-yonina— directly born of the Lord;
prajah—living entities; srja—generate; yatha-purvam—as it was hereinbefore;
yah—which; ca—also; mayi—in Me; anuserate—lie.

TRANSLATION

By following My instructions you can now generate the living entities as
before, by dint of your complete Vedic wisdom and the body that you
have directly received from Me, the supreme cause of everything.

TEXT 44

aa vara
TM Tt WR THATEIAT: |
casas TA SIT HAA Uvvill

maitreya uvaca
tasma evam jagat-srastre
pradhana-purusesvarah
vyajyedam svena rupena
kaiija-nabhas tirodadhe

maitreyah uvaca—the sage Maitreya said; tasmai—unto him; evam—thus;
Jagat-srastre—unto the creator of the universe; pradhana-purusa-isvarah—
the primeval Lord, the Personality of Godhead; vyajya idam—after in-
structing this; svena—in His person; riipena—by the form; kafija-nabhah—
the Personality of Godhead Narayana; tirodadhe—disappeared.

TRANSLATION

The sage Maitreya said: After instructing Brahma, the creator of the
universe, to expand, the primeval Lord, the Personality of Godhead in His
personal form as Narayana, disappeared.

PURPORT

Before his activity in creating the universe, Brahma saw the Lord. That
is the explanation of the Catuh-slokt Bhagavatam. When the creation
