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| Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Takhura Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Brahma Samhita IntraText CT - Text |
saktiman purusah so 'yam
linga-rupi mahesvarah
tasminn avirabhul linge
maha-visnur jagat-patih
saktiman--joined to his female consort; purusah--person; sah--he; ayam--this; linga-rupi--in the form of the male generating organ; maha-isvarah--Sambhu, the lord of this mundane world; tasmin--in that; avirabhut--manifested; linge-- in the manifested emblem; maha-visnuh--Maha-Visnu; jagat-patih--the Lord of the world.
The person embodying the material causal principle, viz., the great lord of this mundane world [Mahesvaral Sambhu, in the form of the male generating organ, is joined to his female consort the limited energy [Maya] as the efficient causal principle. The Lord of the world Maha-Visnu is manifest in him by His subjective portion in the form of His glance.
In
the transcendental atmosphere (para-vyoma), where spiritual majesty
preponderates, there is present Sri Narayana who is not different from Krsna.
Maha-Sankarsana, subjective plenary facsimile of the extended personality of
Sri Narayana, is also the divine plenary portion of the propagatory embodiment
of Sri Krsna. By the power of His spiritual energy a plenary subjective portion
of Him, eternally reposing in the neutral stream of Viraja forming the boundary
between the spiritual and mundane realms, casts His glance, at creation, unto
the limited shadow potency, Maya, who is located far away from Himself.
Thereupon Sambhu, lord of pradhana embodying the substantive principles of all
material entities, who is the same as Rudra, the dim reflection of the Supreme
Lord's own divine glance, consummates his intercourse with Maya, the efficient
mundane causal principle. But he can do nothing independently of the energy of
Maha-Visnu representing the direct spiritual power of Krsna. Therefore, the
principle of mahat, or the perverted cognitive faculty, is produced only when
the subjective plenary portion of Krsna, viz., the prime divine avatara Maha-Visnu
who is the subjective portion of Sankarsana, Himself the subjective portion of
Krsna, is propitious towards the active mutual endeavors of Maya, Siva's
consort (sakti), and pradhana or the principle of substantive mundane
causality. Agreeably to the initiative of Maha-Visnu the consort of Siva
creates successively the mundane ego (ahankara), the five mundane elements
(bhutas) viz., space etc., their attributes (tan-matros) and the limited senses
of the conditioned soul (jiva). The constituent particles, in the form of
pencils of effulgence of Maha-Visnu, are manifest as the individual souls
(jivas). This will be elaborted in the sequel.