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Srimad Bhagavatam — Dvitiya Skandha, Shloka 13

Puruṣa-sūkta Logic of the Virāṭ: Cosmic Anatomy, Sacrifice, and the Lord’s Transcendence

अहं भवान् भवश्चैव त इमे मुनयोऽग्रजा: । सुरासुरनरा नागा: खगा मृगसरीसृपा: ॥ १३ ॥ गन्धर्वाप्सरसो यक्षा रक्षोभूतगणोरगा: । पशव: पितर: सिद्धा विद्याध्राश्चारणा द्रुमा: ॥ १४ ॥ अन्ये च विविधा जीवा जलस्थलनभौकस: । ग्रहर्क्षकेतवस्तारास्तडित: स्तनयित्नव: ॥ १५ ॥ सर्वं पुरुष एवेदं भूतं भव्यं भवच्च यत् । तेनेदमावृतं विश्वं वितस्तिमधितिष्ठति ॥ १६ ॥

ahaṁ bhavān bhavaś caiva ta ime munayo ’grajāḥ surāsura-narā nāgāḥ khagā mṛga-sarīsṛpāḥ

从我(梵天)直到你与婆伐(湿婆),以及先于你而生的诸牟尼;天神与阿修罗、人类、那伽、飞鸟、走兽与爬行类;又有乾闼婆、阿普萨拉、夜叉、罗刹、鬼众、龙蛇、群畜、祖灵、成就者、持明者、查拉那与树木;水居、地居、空居的种种生命;诸行星、星宿、彗曜(计都)、群星、闪电与雷鸣——凡过去、现在、未来的一切,恒常为主之普鲁沙的宇宙形相(毗湿瓦鲁帕)所覆护;而祂又超越万有,永住于仅一“维塔斯提”(约九英寸)之形。

अहम्I
अहम्:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootअस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formप्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन; सर्वनाम
भवान्you (honored)
भवान्:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootभवत् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; आदरार्थ-प्रयोग (honorific pronoun)
भवःBhava (Śiva)
भवः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootभव (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन
and
:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/connector)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चय-अव्यय (conjunction)
एवindeed/just
एव:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव (अव्यय)
Formअवधारण-निपात (emphatic particle)
तेthey
ते:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; सर्वनाम
इमेthese
इमे:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; सर्वनाम
मुनयःsages
मुनयः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootमुनि (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन
अग्रजाःthe first-born/elders
अग्रजाः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootअग्रज (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन
सुरgods
सुर:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootसुर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formसमास-पूर्वपद (compound member)
असुरdemons
असुर:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootअसुर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formसमास-मध्यपद (compound member)
नराःmen (gods, demons, and men)
नराः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootनर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; द्वन्द्व-समासः (सुर + असुर + नर)
नागाःserpents/nāgas
नागाः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootनाग (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन
खगाःbirds
खगाः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootखग (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन
मृगbeasts/deer
मृग:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootमृग (प्रातिपदिक)
Formसमास-पूर्वपद (compound member)
सरीसृपाःreptiles (beasts and reptiles)
सरीसृपाः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootसरीसृप (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; द्वन्द्व-समासः (मृग + सरीसृप)

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by His partial representation, measuring not more than nine inches as Supersoul, expands by His potency in the shape of the universal form, which includes everything manifested in different varieties of organic and inorganic materials. The manifested varieties of the universe are therefore not different from the Lord, just as golden ornaments of different shapes and forms are nondifferent from the original stock reserve of gold. In other words, the Lord is the Supreme Person who controls everything within the creation, and still He remains the supreme separate identity, distinct from all manifested material creation. In the Bhagavad-gītā (9.4-5) He is therefore said to be Yogeśvara. Everything rests on the potency of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and still the Lord is different from and transcendental to all such identities. In the Vedic Puruṣa-sūkta of the Ṛg mantra, this is also confirmed. This philosophical truth of simultaneous oneness and difference was propounded by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and it is known as acintya-bhedābheda-tattva. Brahmā, Nārada and all others are simultaneously one with the Lord and different from the Supreme Lord. We are all one with Him, just as the gold ornaments are one in quality with the stock gold, but the individual gold ornament is never equal in quantity with the stock gold. The stock gold is never exhausted even if there are innumerable ornaments emanating from the stock because the stock is pūrṇam, complete; even if pūrṇam is deducted from the pūrṇam, still the supreme pūrṇam remains the same pūrṇam. This fact is inconceivable to our present imperfect senses. Lord Caitanya therefore defined His theory of philosophy as acintya (inconceivable), and as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā as well as in the Bhāgavatam, Lord Caitanya’s theory of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva is the perfect philosophy of the Absolute Truth.