अस्यासि हेतुरुदयस्थितिसंयमाना- मव्यक्तजीवमहतामपि कालमाहु: । सोऽयं त्रिणाभिरखिलापचये प्रवृत्त: कालो गभीररय उत्तमपूरुषस्त्वम् ॥ १५ ॥
asyāsi hetur udaya-sthiti-saṁyamānām avyakta-jīva-mahatām api kālam āhuḥ so ’yaṁ tri-ṇābhir akhilāpacaye pravṛttaḥ kālo gabhīra-raya uttama-pūruṣas tvam
- asya
- of this (universe)
- asi
- You are
- hetuḥ
- the cause
- udaya
- of the creation
- sthiti
- maintenance
- saṁyamānām
- and annihilation
- avyakta
- of the unmanifest material nature
- jīva
- the individual living beings
- mahatām
- and of the mahat-tattva, with the manifest elements evolved from it
- api
- also
- kālam
- the controlling time factor
- āhuḥ
- You are said to be
- saḥ ayam
- this same personality
- tri-ṇābhiḥ
- appearing as a wheel with circumference divided into three parts (the year divided into four-month seasons)
- akhila
- of everything
- apacaye
- in effecting the diminution
- pravṛttaḥ
- engaged
- kālaḥ
- the time factor
- gabhīra
- imperceptible
- rayaḥ
- the movement of which
- uttama-pūruṣaḥ
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- tvam
- You are
You are the cause of the creation, maintenance and destruction of this universe. As time, You regulate the subtle and manifest states of material nature and control every living being. As the threefold wheel of time You diminish all things by Your imperceptible actions, and thus You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead.