यदा मन उपादाय यद् यद् रूपं बुभूषति । तत्तद् भवेन्मनोरूपं मद्योगबलमाश्रय: ॥ २२ ॥
yadā mana upādāya yad yad rūpaṁ bubhūṣati tat tad bhaven mano-rūpaṁ mad-yoga-balam āśrayaḥ
- yadā
- when
- manaḥ
- the mind
- upādāya
- applying
- yat yat
- whatever
- rūpam
- form
- bubhūṣati
- one desires to assume
- tat tat
- that very form
- bhavet
- may appear
- manaḥ-rūpam
- the form desired by the mind
- mat-yoga-balam
- My inconceivable mystic potency, by which I manifest innumerable forms
- āśrayaḥ
- being the shelter
When the yogī, applying his mind in a certain way, desires to assume a particular form, that very form immediately appears. Such perfection is possible by absorbing the mind in the shelter of My inconceivable mystic potency, by which I assume innumerable forms.