त्रिविधाकृतयस्तस्य राक्षसा असुरा: सुरा: । गुणिन्या मायया सृष्टा: सत्त्वं तत्तीर्थसाधनम् ॥ १८ ॥
tri-vidhākṛtayas tasya rākṣasā asurāḥ surāḥ guṇinyā māyayā sṛṣṭāḥ sattvaṁ tat tīrtha-sādhanam
- tri-vidha
- of three kinds
- ākṛtayaḥ
- forms
- tasya
- of His
- rākṣasāḥ
- the ignorant spirits
- asurāḥ
- the demons
- surāḥ
- and the demigods
- guṇinyāḥ
- qualified by the material modes
- māyayā
- by His material energy
- sṛṣṭāḥ
- created
- sattvam
- the mode of goodness
- tat
- among them
- tīrtha
- of success in life
- sādhanam
- the means of attainment
The Lord expands into three kinds of manifest beings — the Rākṣasas, the demons and the demigods — all of whom are created by the Lord’s material energy and conditioned by her modes. But among these three modes, it is the mode of goodness which is the means of attaining life’s final success.