tvam ÄdyaḼ puruᚣaḼ sÄkᚣÄd
ÄŤĹvaraḼ prakášteḼ paraḼ
mÄyÄáš vyudasya cic-chaktyÄ
kaivalye sthita Ätmani
tvam ÄdyaḼ - You are the original; puruᚣaḼ - the enjoying personality; sÄkᚣÄt - directly; ÄŤĹvaraḼ - the controller; prakášteḼ - of material nature; paraḼ - transcendental; mÄyÄm - the material energy; vyudasya - one who has thrown aside; cit-ĹaktyÄ - by dint of internal potency; kaivalye - in pure eternal knowledge and bliss; sthitaḼ - placed; Ätmani - own self.
The Lord states in the Bhagavad-gÄŤtÄ that one who surrenders unto the lotus feet of the Lord can get release from the clutches of nescience. KášášŁáša is just like the sun, and mÄyÄ or material existence is just like darkness. Wherever there is the light of the sun, darkness or ignorance at once vanishes. The best means to get out of the world of ignorance is suggested here. The Lord is addressed herein as the original Personality of Godhead. From Him all other Personalities of Godhead expand. The all-pervasive Lord Viᚣášu is Lord KášášŁášaâs plenary portion or expansion. The Lord expands Himself in innumerable forms of Godhead and living beings, along with His different energies. But ĹrÄŤ KášášŁáša is the original primeval Lord from whom everything emanates. The all-pervasive feature of the Lord experienced within the manifested world is also a partial representation of the Lord. ParamÄtmÄ, therefore, is included within Him. He is the Absolute Personality of Godhead. He has nothing to do with the actions and reactions of the material manifestation because He is far above the material creation. Darkness is a perverse representation of the sun, and therefore the existence of darkness depends on the existence of the sun, but in the sun proper there is no trace of darkness. As the sun is full of light only, similarly the Absolute Personality of Godhead, beyond the material existence, is full of bliss. He is not only full of bliss, but also full of transcendental variegatedness. Transcendence is not at all static, but full of dynamic variegatedness. He is distinct from the material nature, which is complicated by the three modes of material nature. He is parama, or the chief. Therefore He is absolute. He has manifold energies, and through His diverse energies He creates, manifests, maintains and destroys the material world. In His own abode, however, everything is eternal and absolute. The world is not conducted by the energies or powerful agents by themselves, but by the potent all-powerful with all energies.