गुणाभिमानिनो देवा: सर्गादिष्वस्य यद्भयात् । वर्तन्तेऽनुयुगं येषां वश एतच्चराचरम् ॥ ४४ ॥
gunabhimanino devah sargadisv asya yad-bhayat vartante ’nuyugam yesam vasa etac caracaram
- guna
- the modes of material nature
- abhimaninah
- in charge of
- devah
- the demigods
- sarga-adisu
- in the matter of creation and so on
- asya
- of this world
- yat-bhayat
- out of fear of whom
- vartante
- carry out functions
- anuyugam
- according to the yugas
- yesam
- of whom
- vase
- under the control
- etat
- this
- cara-acaram
- everything animate and inanimate.
Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the directing demigods in charge of the modes of material nature carry out the functions of creation, maintenance and destruction; everything animate and inanimate within this material world is under their control.