त्वं वा इदं सदसदीश भवांस्ततोऽन्यो माया यदात्मपरबुद्धिरियं ह्यपार्था । यद्यस्य जन्म निधनं स्थितिरीक्षणं च तद्वैतदेव वसुकालवदष्टितर्वो: ॥ ३१ ॥
tvam va idam sadasad isa bhavams tato ’nyo maya yad atma-para-buddhir iyam hy apartha yad yasya janma nidhanam sthitir iksanam ca tad vaitad eva vasukalavad asti-tarvoh
- tvam
- You
- va
- either
- idam
- the whole universe
- sat-asat
- consisting of cause and effect (You are the cause, and Your energy is the effect)
- isa
- O my Lord, the supreme controller
- bhavan
- Yourself
- tatah
- from the universe
- anyah
- separately situated (the creation is made by the Lord, yet He remains separate from the creation)
- maya
- the energy that appears as a separate creation
- yat
- of which
- atma-para-buddhih
- the conception of one’s own and another’s
- iyam
- this
- hi
- indeed
- apartha
- has no meaning (everything is Your Lordship, and therefore there is no hope for understanding “my” and “your”)
- yat
- the substance from which
- yasya
- of which
- janma
- creation
- nidhanam
- annihilation
- sthitih
- maintenance
- iksanam
- manifestation
- ca
- and
- tat
- that
- va
- or
- etat
- this
- eva
- certainly
- vasukala-vat
- like the quality of being the earth and, beyond that, the subtle element of the earth (smell)
- asti-tarvoh
- the seed (the cause) and the tree (the effect of the cause)
My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, the entire cosmic creation is caused by You, and the cosmic manifestation is an effect of Your energy. Although the entire cosmos is but You alone, You keep Yourself aloof from it. The conception of mine and yours is certainly a type of illusion (maya) because everything is an emanation from You and is therefore not different from You. Indeed, the cosmic manifestation is nondifferent from You, and the annihilation is also caused by You. This relationship between Your Lordship and the cosmos is illustrated by the example of the seed and the tree, or the subtle cause and the gross manifestation.