विश्वं वै ब्रह्मतन्मात्रं संस्थितं विष्णुमायया । ईश्वरेण परिच्छिन्नं कालेनाव्यक्तमूर्तिना ॥ १२ ॥
visvam vai brahma-tan-matram samsthitam visnu-mayaya isvarena paricchinnam kalenavyakta-murtina
- visvam
- the material phenomenon
- vai
- certainly
- brahma
- the Supreme
- tat-matram
- the same as
- samsthitam
- situated
- visnu-mayaya
- by the energy of Visnu
- isvarena
- by the Personality of Godhead
- paricchinnam
- separated
- kalena
- by the eternal time
- avyakta
- unmanifested
- murtina
- by such a feature.
This cosmic manifestation is separated from the Supreme Lord as material energy by means of kala, which is the unmanifested, impersonal feature of the Lord. It is situated as the objective manifestation of the Lord under the influence of the same material energy of Visnu.