बहुरूप इवाभाति मायया बहुरूपया । रममाणो गुणेष्वस्या ममाहमिति मन्यते ॥ २ ॥
bahu-rupa ivabhati mayaya bahu-rupaya ramamano gunesv asya mamaham iti manyate
- bahu-rupah
- multiforms
- iva
- as it were
- abhati
- manifested
- mayaya
- by the influence of the exterior energy
- bahu-rupaya
- in multifarious forms
- ramamanah
- enjoying as it were
- gunesu
- in the modes of different qualities
- asyah
- of the external energy
- mama
- mine
- aham
- I
- iti
- thus
- manyate
- thinks.
The illusioned living entity appears in so many forms offered by the external energy of the Lord. While enjoying in the modes of material nature, the encaged living entity misconceives, thinking in terms of and mine