उत्पत्तिस्थितिलयहेतवोऽस्य कल्पा: सत्त्वाद्या: प्रकृतिगुणा यदीक्षयाऽऽसन्॒ । यद्रूपं ध्रुवमकृतं यदेकमात्मन् नानाधात्कथमु ह वेद तस्य वर्त्म ॥ ९ ॥
utpatti-sthiti-laya-hetavo ’sya kalpah sattvadyah prakrti-guna yad-iksayasan yad-rupam dhruvam akrtam yad ekam atman nanadhat katham u ha veda tasya vartma
- utpatti
- of creation
- sthiti
- maintenance
- laya
- and dissolution
- hetavah
- the original causes
- asya
- of this material world
- kalpah
- capable of acting
- sattva-adyah
- headed by the sattva-guna
- prakrti-gunah
- the modes of material nature
- yat
- of whom
- iksaya
- by the glance
- asan
- became
- yat-rupam
- the form of whom
- dhruvam
- unlimited
- akrtam
- uncreated
- yat
- who
- ekam
- one
- atman
- in Himself
- nana
- variously
- adhat
- has manifested
- katham
- how
- u ha
- certainly
- veda
- can understand
- tasya
- His
- vartma
- path
By His glance, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enables the modes of material nature to act as the causes of universal creation, maintenance and destruction. The Supreme Soul is unlimited and beginningless, and although He is one, He has manifested Himself in many forms. How can human society understand the ways of the Supreme?