Text 5] Mohini-marti Bewilders Lord Siva 101

TEXT 5
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TASHA Aah Tq aes A Fae AAT NI

ady-antav asya yan madhyam
idam anyad aham bahih

yato "vyayasya naitani
tat satyam brahma cid bhavan

adi—the beginning; antau—and the end; asya—of this manifested
cosmos or of anything material or visible; yat—that which; madhyam—
between the beginning and the end, the sustenance; idam—this cosmic
manifestation; anyat—anything other than You; aham—the wrong
mental conception; bahih—outside of You; yatah—because of;
avyayasya—the inexhaustible; na—not; etdni—all these differences;
tat—that; satyam—the Absolute Truth; brahma—the Supreme; cit—
spiritual; bhavan—Your Lordship.

TRANSLATION

The manifest, the unmanifest, false ego and the beginning,
maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation all
come from You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But because
You are the Absolute Truth, the supreme absolute spirit soul, the
Supreme Brahman, such changes as birth, death and sustenance do
not exist in You.

PURPORT

According to the Vedic mantras, yato va imdni bhiitani jdyante:

everything is an emanation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As
stated by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gita (7.4):

bhiimir apo ’nalo vayuh
kham mano buddhir eva ca
ahankara itiyam me
bhinna prakrtir astadha
“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego—all
together these eight comprise My separated material energies.” In other
