tattvÄni pÅ«rva-rÅ«á¸hÄni
kÄraṇÄni parasparam
samavÄyÄprayogÄc ca
vibhinnÄni pá¹›thak pá¹›thak
cic-chaktyÄ sajjamÄno 'tha
bhagavÄn Ädi-pÅ«ruá¹£aḥ
yojayan mÄyayÄ devo
yoga-nidrÄm akalpayat
tattvÄni - elements; pÅ«rva-rÅ«á¸hÄni - previously created; kÄraṇÄni - causes; parasparam - mutually; samavÄya - of the process of conglomeration; aprayogÄt - from the nonapplication; ca - and; vibhinnÄni - separate; pá¹›thak pá¹›thak - one from another; cit-Å›aktyÄ - with His spiritual potency; sajjamÄnaḥ - associating; atha - then; bhagavÄn - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; Ädi-pÅ«ruá¹£aḥ - the primal Godhead; yojayan - causing to join; mÄyayÄ - with MÄyÄ; devaḥ - the Lord; yoga-nidrÄm - YoganidrÄ; akalpayat - He consorted with.
MayÄdhyaká¹£eṇa praká¹›tiḥ sÅ«yate sa-carÄcaram: [Bg. 9.10] "The mundane energy praká¹›ti gives birth to this universe of animate and inanimate beings by My direction." The purport of this Å›loka of the GÄ«tÄ is that MÄyÄ, the perverted reflection of spiritual (cit) potency. was at first inactive and her extension of matter constituting the material cause was also in the separately dislocated state. In accordance with the will of Kṛṣṇa this world is manifested as the resultant of the union of the efficient and the material causal principles of MÄyÄ. In spite of that, the Supreme Lord Himself remains united with His cit potency. YoganidrÄ. The word yoganidrÄ or yogamÄyÄ indicates as follows: The nature of cit potency is manifestive of the Absolute Truth, while the nature of her perverted reflection, MÄyÄ, is envelopment in the gloom of ignorance. When Kṛṣṇa desires to manifest something in the mundane ignorance-wrapt affairs, He does this by the conjunction of His spiritual potency with His inactive nonspiritual potency. This is known as YogamÄyÄ. It carries a twofold notion, namely. transcendental notion and mundane inert notion. Kṛṣṇa Himself, His subjective portions and those jÄ«vas who are His unalloyed separated particles, realize the transcendental notion in that conjunction, while conditioned souls feel the mundane inert notion. The external coating of transcendental knowledge in the conscious activities of conditioned souls, bears the name of YoganidrÄ. This is also an influence of the cit potency of the Divinity. This principle will be more elaborately considered hereafter.