माया मन: सृजति कर्ममयं बलीय: कालेन चोदितगुणानुमतेन पुंस: । छन्दोमयं यदजयार्पितषोडशारं संसारचक्रमज कोऽतितरेत् त्वदन्य: ॥ २१ ॥
maya manah srjati karmamayam baliyah kalena codita-gunanumatena pumsah chandomayam yad ajayarpita-sodasaram samsara-cakram aja ko ’titaret tvad-anyah
- maya
- the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- manah
- the mind*
- </a> srjati
- creates
- karma-mayam
- producing hundreds and thousands of desires and acting accordingly
- baliyah
- extremely powerful, insurmountable
- kalena
- by time
- codita-guna
- whose three modes of material nature are agitated
- anumatena
- permitted by the mercy of the glance (time)
- pumsah
- of the plenary portion, Lord Visnu, the expansion of Lord Krsna
- chandah-mayam
- chiefly influenced by the directions in the Vedas
- yat
- which
- ajaya
- because of dark ignorance
- arpita
- offered
- sodasa
- sixteen
- aram
- the spokes
- samsara-cakram
- the wheel of repeated birth and death in different species of life
- aja
- O unborn Lord
- kah
- who (is there)
- atitaret
- able to get out
- tvat-anyah
- without taking shelter at Your lotus feet
O Lord, O supreme eternal, by expanding Your plenary portion You have created the subtle bodies of the living entities through the agency of Your external energy, which is agitated by time. Thus the mind entraps the living entity in unlimited varieties of desires to be fulfilled by the Vedic directions of karma-kanda (fruitive activity) and the sixteen elements. Who can get free from this entanglement unless he takes shelter at Your lotus feet?