Shloka 14
Vasudeva and Devakī Glorify Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma; The Recovery of Devakī’s Six Sons from Sutala
तस्मान्न सन्त्यमी भावा यर्हि त्वयि विकल्पिता: । त्वं चामीषु विकारेषु ह्यन्यदाव्यावहारिक: ॥ १४ ॥
tasmān na santy amī bhāvā yarhi tvayi vikalpitāḥ tvaṁ cāmīṣu vikāreṣu hy anyadāvyāvahārikaḥ
അതുകൊണ്ട് പ്രകൃതിയുടെ വികാരങ്ങളായ ഈ സൃഷ്ടിഭാവങ്ങൾ നിനക്കുള്ളിൽ പ്രകടമാകുമ്പോഴേ നിലനിൽക്കൂ; അപ്പോൾ നീയും അവയിൽ പ്രകടമാകുന്നു. എന്നാൽ സൃഷ്ടിവിരാമത്തിൽ, ഈ വികാരങ്ങളെ അതിക്രമിച്ച്, നീ തന്നെയാണ് ഏകമായി പരമാർത്ഥമായ അതീന്ദ്രിയ സത്യമായി നിലകൊള്ളുന്നത്.
When the universe is wound up at the time of its periodic annihilation, all the inert objects and bodies of living beings that hitherto were manifested by the Lord’s Māyā become disconnected from His sight. Then, since He maintains no association with them during the period of universal dissolution, they in fact no longer exist. In other words, material manifestations have real, functioning existence only when the Lord turns His attention to the creation and maintenance of the material cosmos. The Lord is never “within” these objects in any material sense, but He does mercifully pervade them all as the impersonal Brahman, and as the Paramātmā He enters within every atom and also accompanies the jīva souls in their individual embodiments. As the Lord describes in His own words in the verses of Bhagavad-gītā (9.4-5):
FAQs
This verse explains that worldly states and distinctions are not ultimately real when they are only mentally projected upon the Supreme; the Lord remains separate from such imagined transformations.
Kṛṣṇa instructs Vasudeva in spiritual philosophy, clarifying that the Supreme is untouched by material change and that perceived transformations belong to conditioned perception, not to the Lord’s actual nature.
Practice seeing changing moods, roles, and circumstances as temporary, while anchoring identity in devotion and remembrance of the unchanging Lord—reducing anxiety and strengthening steady bhakti.