Text 63] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva 1107

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SA aT esa: 12H

tvam eka adyah purusah supta-saktis
taya rajah-sattva-tamo vibhidyate
mahan aham kham marud agni-var-dharah
surarsayo bhiita-gana idam yatah

tvam— Your Lordship; ekah—one; adyah—the original; purusah—person;
supta—dormant; saktih—energy ; taya—by which; rajah—the passion energy;
sattva—goodness; tamah—ignorance; vibhidyate—is diversified; mahan—the
total material energy ; aham—egotism; kham—the sky; marut—the air; agni—
fire; vah—water; dharah—earth; sura-rsayah—the demigods and the great
sages; bhitta-ganah—the living entities; idam—all this; yatah—from whom.

TRANSLATION

My dear Lord, You are the only Supreme Person, the cause of all causes.
Before the creation of this material world, Your material energy remains
in a dormant condition. When Your material energy is agitated, the three
qualities—namely, goodness, passion and ignorance—act, and as a result
the total material energy—egotism, ether, air, fire, water, earth, and all
the various demigods and saintly persons—becomes manifest. Thus the
material world is created.

PURPORT

If the whole creation is one, that is, nothing but the Supreme Lord, or
Visnu, then why do the expert transcendentalists make such categories as
are found in the above verse? Why do learned and expert scholars distin-
guish between matter and spirit? In answer to these questions, Lord Siva
says that spirit and matter are not creations of various philosophers, but
are manifested by Lord Visnu, as described in this verse: tuam eka adyah
purusah. Spiritual and material categories are made possible by
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but actually there are no such dis-
tinctions for the living entities who are eternally engaged in the service of
the Lord. There is only a material world for those who want to imitate the
Lord and become enjoyers. Indeed, the material world is nothing but
forgetfulness of the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the creator
