TEXT 17

atha tais tri-vidhair vesair
lilam udvahatah kila
yoga-nidra bhagavati
tasya srir iva sangata

WORD FOR WORD

atha--thereupon; taih--with those; tri-vidhaih--threefold; vesaih--forms; lilam--pastimes; udvahatah--carrying on; kila--indeed; yoga-nidra--Yoganidra; bhagavati--full of the ecstatic trance of eternal bliss; tasya--of Him; srih--the goddess of fortune; iva--like; sangata--consorted with.

TRANSLATION

Thereupon the same great personal Godhead, assuming the threefold forms of Vishnu, Prajapati and Sambhu, entering into the mundane universe, plays the pastimes of preservation, creation and destruction of this world. This pastime is contained in the mundane world. Hence, it being perverted, the Supreme Lord, identical with Maha-Visnu, prefers to consort with the goddess Yoganidra, the constituent of His own spiritual [cit] potency full of the ecstatic trance of eternal bliss appertaining to His own divine personality.

PURPORT

The dislocated portions of the Divinity, viz., Prajapati and Sambhu, both identifying themselves as entities who are separate from the divine essence, sport with their respective non-spiritual (acit) consorts, viz., Savitri-devi and Uma-devi, the perverted reflections of the spiritual (cit) potency. The Supreme Lord Vishnu is the only Lord of the spiritual (cit) potency, Rama or Laksmi.