भवानीनाथै: स्त्रीगणार्बुदसहस्रैरवरुध्यमानो भगवतश्चतुर्मूर्तेर्महापुरुषस्य तुरीयां तामसीं मूर्तिं प्रकृतिमात्मन: सङ्कर्षणसंज्ञामात्मसमाधिरूपेण सन्निधाप्यैतदभिगृणन् भव उप-धावति ॥ १६ ॥
bhavani-nathaih stri-ganarbuda-sahasrair avarudhyamano bhagavatas catur-murter maha-purusasya turiyam tamasim murtim prakrtim atmanah sankarsana-samjnam atma-samadhi-rupena sannidhapyaitad abhigrnan bhava upadhavati.
- bhavani-nathaih
- by the company of Bhavani
- stri-gana
- of females
- arbuda-sahasraih
- by ten billion
- avarudhyamanah
- always being served
- bhagavatah catuh-murteh
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is expanded in four
- maha-purusasya
- of the Supreme Person
- turiyam
- the fourth expansion
- tamasim
- related to the mode of ignorance
- murtim
- the form
- prakrtim
- as the source
- atmanah
- of himself (Lord Siva)
- sankarsana-samjnam
- known as Sankarsana
- atma-samadhi-rupena
- by meditating upon Him in trance
- sannidhapya
- bringing Him near
- etat
- this
- abhigrnan
- clearly chanting
- bhavah
- Lord Siva
- upadhavati
- worships
In Ilavrta-varsa, Lord Siva is always encircled by ten billion maidservants of goddess Durga, who minister to him. The quadruple expansion of the Supreme Lord is composed of Vasudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Sankarsana. Sankarsana, the fourth expansion, is certainly transcendental, but because his activities of destruction in the material world are in the mode of ignorance, He is known as tamasi, the Lord’s form in the mode of ignorance. Lord Siva knows that Sankarsana is the original cause of his own existence, and thus he always meditates upon Him in trance by chanting the following mantra.