मैत्रेय उवाच दैवेन दुर्वितर्क्येण परेणानिमिषेण च । जातक्षोभाद्भगवतो महानासीद् गुणत्रयात् ॥ १२ ॥
maitreya uvaca daivena durvitarkyena parenanimisena ca jata-ksobhad bhagavato mahan asid guna-trayat
- maitreyah uvaca
- Maitreya said
- daivena
- by superior management known as destiny
- durvitarkyena
- beyond empiric speculation
- parena
- by Maha-Visnu
- animisena
- by the potency of eternal time
- ca
- and
- jata-ksobhat
- the equilibrium was agitated
- bhagavatah
- of the Personality of Godhead
- mahan
- the total material elements (the mahat-tattva)
- asit
- were produced
- guna-trayat
- from the three modes of nature.
Maitreya said: When the equilibrium of the combination of the three modes of nature was agitated by the unseen activity of the living entity, by Maha-Visnu and by the force of time, the total material elements were produced.