Text 27] HiranyakaSipu’s Plan to Become Immortal 155
norance; dvurtam—covered; abhivyanak—manifested; jagat—cosmic
manifestation; idam—this; svayam-jyotih—self-effulgent; sva-rocisa —
by his bodily rays; atmand—by himself; tri-vrta—conducted by the
three modes of material nature; ca—also; idam—this material world;
srjati—creates; avati—maintains; lwmpati—annihilates; rajah—of the
mode of passion; sattva—the mode of goodness; tamah—and the mode
of ignorance; dhdmne—unto the supreme lord; pardéya—unto the
supreme; mahate—unto the great; namah—my respectful obeisances.
TRANSLATION

Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the supreme lord
within this universe. At the end of each day of his life, the uni-
verse is fully covered with dense darkness by the influence of
time, and then again, during his next day, that self-effulgent lord,
by his own effulgence, manifests, maintains and destroys the en-
tire cosmic manifestation through the material energy, which is
invested with the three modes of material nature. He, Lord
Brahma, is the shelter of those modes of nature —sattva-guna,
rajo-guna and tamo-guna.

PURPORT

The words abhivyanag jagad idam refer to he who creates this cosmic
manifestation. The original creator is the Supreme Personality of God-
head, Krsna (janmddy asya yatah); Lord Brahma is the secondary cre-
ator. When Lord Brahma is empowered by Lord Krsna as the engineer to
create the phenomenal world, he becomes the supremely powerful
feature within this universe. The total material energy is created by
Krsna, and later, taking advantage of all that has necessarily been cre-
ated, Lord Brahma engineers the entire phenomenal universe. At the end
of Lord Brahma’s day, everything up to Svargaloka is inundated with
water, and the next morning, when there is darkness in the universe,
Brahma again brings the phenomenal manifestation into existence.
Therefore he is described here as he who manifests this universe.

Trin gunan vrnoti: Lord Brahma takes advantage of the three modes
of material nature. Prakrti, material nature, is described here as tri-vurta,
the source of the three material modes. Srila Madhvacarya comments in
