Shloka 22
Puruṣa-sūkta Logic of the Virāṭ: Cosmic Anatomy, Sacrifice, and the Lord’s Transcendence
यस्मादण्डं विराड् जज्ञे भूतेन्द्रियगुणात्मक: । तद् द्रव्यमत्यगाद् विश्वं गोभि: सूर्य इवातपन् ॥ २२ ॥
yasmād aṇḍaṁ virāḍ jajñe bhūtendriya-guṇātmakaḥ tad dravyam atyagād viśvaṁ gobhiḥ sūrya ivātapan
จากพระบุคคลสูงสุดนั้นเอง บรรดาโลกจักรวาลและรูปสากล (วิราฏ) อันประกอบด้วยธาตุ คุณ และอินทรีย์ทั้งหลายได้บังเกิดขึ้น แต่พระองค์ทรงอยู่นอกเหนือและไม่ข้องเกี่ยวกับการปรากฏทางวัตถุเหล่านั้น ดุจดวงอาทิตย์ที่แยกจากรัศมีและความร้อนของตน
The supreme truth has been ascertained in the previous verse as puruṣa or the puruṣottama, the Supreme Person. The Absolute Person is the īśvara, or the supreme controller, by His different energies. The ekapād-vibhūti manifestation of the material energy of the Lord is just like one of the many mistresses of the Lord, by whom the Lord is not so much attracted, as indicated in the language of the Gītā ( bhinnā prakṛtiḥ ). But the region of the tripād-vibhūti, being a pure spiritual manifestation of the energy of the Lord, is, so to speak, more attractive to Him. The Lord, therefore, generates the material manifestations by impregnating the material energy, and then, within the manifestation, He expands Himself as the gigantic form of the viśva-rūpa. The viśva-rūpa, as it was shown to Arjuna, is not the original form of the Lord. The original form of the Lord is the transcendental form of Puruṣottama, or Kṛṣṇa Himself. It is very nicely explained herein that He expands Himself just like the sun. The sun expands itself by its terrible heat and rays, yet the sun is always aloof from such rays and heat. The impersonalist takes into consideration the rays of the Lord without any information of the tangible, transcendental, eternal form of the Lord, known as Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa, in His supreme personal form, with two hands and flute, is bewildering for the impersonalists, who can accommodate only the gigantic viśva-rūpa of the Lord. They should know that the rays of the sun are secondary to the sun, and similarly the impersonal gigantic form of the Lord is also secondary to the personal form as Puruṣottama. The Brahma-saṁhitā (5.37) confirms this statement as follows:
FAQs
This verse states that the Virāṭ, constituted of elements, senses, and qualities, manifests from the Supreme source and then pervades the universe, illuminating it like the sun’s rays.
In this chapter, Śukadeva explains creation systematically to Parīkṣit, using the ‘cosmic egg’ imagery to show an ordered, contained origin from which the universal form (Virāṭ) expands and fills the cosmos.
It trains one to see the Lord’s presence behind all experience—encouraging reverence, responsibility, and steady devotion in daily life, just as sunlight touches all without bias.