स एष आद्य: पुरुष: कल्पे कल्पे सृजत्यज: । आत्मात्मन्यात्मनात्मानं स संयच्छति पाति च ॥ ३९ ॥
sa esa adyah purusah kalpe kalpe srjaty ajah atmatmany atmanatmanam sa samyacchati pati ca
- sah
- He
- esah
- the very
- adyah
- the original Personality of Godhead
- purusah
- the Maha-Visnu incarnation, a plenary portion of Govinda, Lord Krsna
- kalpe kalpe
- in each and every millennium
- srjati
- creates
- ajah
- the unborn
- atma
- self
- atmani
- upon the self
- atmana
- by His own self
- atmanam
- own self
- sah
- He
- samyacchati
- absorbs
- pati
- maintains
- ca
- also.
That supreme original Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krsna, expanding His plenary portion as Maha-Visnu, the first incarnation, creates this manifested cosmos, but He is unborn. The creation, however, takes place in Him, and the material substance and manifestations are all Himself. He maintains them for some time and absorbs them into Himself again.