तव विभव: खलु भगवन् जगदुदयस्थितिलयादीनि । विश्वसृजस्तेꣷशांशा स्तत्र मृषा स्पर्धन्ति पृथगभिमत्या ॥ ३५ ॥
tava vibhavah khalu bhagavan jagad-udaya-sthiti-layadini visva-srjas te ’msamsas tatra mrsa spardhanti prthag abhimatya
- tava
- Your
- vibhavah
- opulences
- khalu
- indeed
- bhagavan
- O Supreme Personality of Godhead
- jagat
- of the cosmic manifestation
- udaya
- the creation
- sthiti
- maintenance
- laya-adini
- dissolution and so on
- visva-srjah
- the creators of the manifested world
- te
- they
- amsa-amsah
- parts of Your plenary portion
- tatra
- in that
- mrsa
- in vain
- spardhanti
- rival one another
- prthak
- of separateness
- abhimatya
- by a false conception
My dear Lord, this cosmic manifestation and its creation, maintenance and annihilation are all but Your opulences. Since Lord Brahma and the other creators are nothing but small portions of a portion of You, their partial power to create does not make them God (isvara). Their consciousness of themselves as separate Lords is therefore merely false prestige. It is not valid.