तथापि तच्छक्तिविसर्ग एषां सुखाय दु:खाय हिताहिताय । बन्धाय मोक्षाय च मृत्युजन्मनो: शरीरिणां संसृतयेऽवकल्पते ॥ २३ ॥
tathapi tac-chakti-visarga esam sukhaya duhkhaya hitahitaya bandhaya moksaya ca mrtyu-janmanoh saririnam samsrtaye ’vakalpate
- tathapi
- still
- tat-sakti
- of the Lord’s energy
- visargah
- the creation
- esam
- of these (conditioned souls)
- sukhaya
- for the happiness
- duhkhaya
- for the distress
- hita-ahitaya
- for the profit and loss
- bandhaya
- for the bondage
- moksaya
- for the liberation
- ca
- also
- mrtyu
- of death
- janmanoh
- and birth
- saririnam
- of all those who accept material bodies
- samsrtaye
- for the repetition
- avakalpate
- acts.
Although the Supreme Lord is unattached to our happiness and distress according to karma, and although no one is His enemy or favorite, He creates pious and impious activities through the agency of His material potency. Thus for the continuation of the materialistic way of life He creates happiness and distress, good fortune and bad, bondage and liberation, birth and death.