atraiva mÄyÄ-dhamanÄvatÄre
hy asya prapañcasya bahiḥ sphuá¹asya
ká¹›tsnasya cÄntar jaá¹hare jananyÄ
mÄyÄtvam eva prakaá¹Ä«-ká¹›taá¹ te
atra - in this; eva - indeed; mÄyÄ-dhamana - O subduer of MÄyÄ; avatÄre - in the incarnation; hi - certainly; asya - of this; prapañcasya - created material manifestation; bahiḥ - externally; sphuá¹asya - which is visible; ká¹›tsnasya - entire; ca - and; antaḥ - within; jaá¹hare - Your abdomen; jananyÄḥ - unto Your mother; mÄyÄtvam - Your bewildering potency; eva - indeed; prakaá¹Ä«-ká¹›tam - has been demonstrated; te - by You.
My dear Lord, in this incarnation You have proved that You are the supreme controller of MÄyÄ. Although You are now within this universe, the whole universal creation is within Your transcendental body — a fact You demonstrated by exhibiting the universe within Your abdomen before Your mother, YaÅ›odÄ.
Lord BrahmÄ here describes the inconceivable spiritual potency of the Lord. We may find a pot within a house, but we can hardly expect to find the house within the same pot. By the Lord’s spiritual potency, however, He can appear within this universe and simultaneously exhibit all the universes within His body. One may argue that since the universes seen by mother YaÅ›odÄ within Lord Kṛṣṇa’s abdomen were within the Lord’s body, they are different from the illusory material universes manifest externally. Here Lord BrahmÄ refutes that argument, however. Lord Kṛṣṇa is mÄyÄ-dhamana, the supreme controller of illusion. By the Lord’s own supreme mystic potency, He can bewilder even illusion herself, and thus the Lord actually exhibited all the material universes within His body. This is mÄyÄtvam, the supreme bewildering potency of the Personality of Godhead.
