आद्य: स्थिरचराणां यो वेदगर्भ: सहर्षिभि: । योगेश्वरै: कुमाराद्यै: सिद्धैर्योगप्रवर्तकै: ॥ १२ ॥ भेददृष्टयाभिमानेन नि:सङ्गेनापि कर्मणा । कर्तृत्वात्सगुणं ब्रह्म पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभम् ॥ १३ ॥ स संसृत्य पुन: काले कालेनेश्वरमूर्तिना । जाते गुणव्यतिकरे यथापूर्वं प्रजायते ॥ १४ ॥ ऐश्वर्यं पारमेष्ठ्यं च तेऽपि धर्मविनिर्मितम् । निषेव्य पुनरायान्ति गुणव्यतिकरे सति ॥ १५ ॥
adyah sthira-caranam yo veda-garbhah saharsibhih yogesvaraih kumaradyaih siddhair yoga-pravartakaih bheda-drstyabhimanena nihsangenapi karmana kartrtvat sagunam brahma purusam purusarsabham sa samsrtya punah kale kalenesvara-murtina jate guna-vyatikare yatha-purvam prajayate aisvaryam paramesthyam ca te ’pi dharma-vinirmitam nisevya punar ayanti guna-vyatikare sati
- adyah
- the creator, Lord Brahma
- sthira-caranam
- of the immobile and mobile manifestations
- yah
- he who
- veda-garbhah
- the repository of the Vedas
- saha
- along with
- rsibhih
- the sages
- yoga-isvaraih
- with great mystic yogis
- kumara-adyaih
- the Kumaras and others
- siddhaih
- with the perfected living beings
- yoga-pravartakaih
- the authors of the yoga system
- bheda-drstya
- because of independent vision
- abhimanena
- by misconception
- nihsangena
- nonfruitive
- api
- although
- karmana
- by their activities
- kartrtvat
- from the sense of being a doer
- sa-gunam
- possessing spiritual qualities
- brahma
- Brahman
- purusam
- the Personality of Godhead
- purusa-rsabham
- the first purusa incarnation
- sah
- he
- samsrtya
- having attained
- punah
- again
- kale
- at the time
- kalena
- by time
- isvara-murtina
- the manifestation of the Lord
- jate guna-vyatikare
- when the interaction of the modes arises
- yatha
- as
- purvam
- previously
- prajayate
- is born
- aisvaryam
- opulence
- paramesthyam
- royal
- ca
- and
- te
- the sages
- api
- also
- dharma
- by their pious activities
- vinirmitam
- produced
- nisevya
- having enjoyed
- punah
- again
- ayanti
- they return
- guna-vyatikare sati
- when the interaction of the modes takes place
My dear mother, someone may worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead with a special self-interest, but even demigods such as Lord Brahma, great sages such as Sanat-kumara and great munis such as Marici have to come back to the material world again at the time of creation. When the interaction of the three modes of material nature begins, Brahma, who is the creator of this cosmic manifestation and who is full of Vedic knowledge, and the great sages, who are the authors of the spiritual path and the yoga system, come back under the influence of the time factor. They are liberated by their nonfruitive activities and attain the first incarnation of the purusa, but at the time of creation they come back in exactly the same forms and positions they previously had.