नमः परस्मै पुरुषाय भूयसे सदुद्भवस्थाननिरोधलीलया ।
गृहीतशक्तित्रितयाय देहिनामन्तर्भवायानुपलक्ष्यवर्त्मने ॥१२॥
Å›rÄ«-Å›uka uvÄca
namaḥ parasmai puruá¹£Äya bhÅ«yase
sad-udbhava-sthÄna-nirodha-lÄ«layÄ
gá¹›hÄ«ta-Å›akti-tritayÄya dehinÄm
antarbhavÄyÄnupalaká¹£ya-vartmane
Å›rÄ«-Å›ukaḥ uvÄca - ÅšrÄ« Åšukadeva GosvÄmÄ« said; namaḥ - offering obeisances; parasmai - the Supreme; puruá¹£Äya - personality of Godhead; bhÅ«yase - unto the complete whole; sad-udbhava - the creation of the material world; sthÄna - its maintenance; nirodha - and its winding up; lÄ«layÄ - by the pastime of; gá¹›hÄ«ta - having accepted; Å›akti - power; tritayÄya - three modes; dehinÄm - of all who possess material bodies; antaḥ-bhavÄya - unto He who resides within; anupalaká¹£ya - inconceivable; vartmane - one who has such ways.
Åšukadeva GosvÄmÄ« said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, for the creation of the material world, accepts the three modes of nature. He is the complete whole residing within the body of everyone, and His ways are inconceivable.
This material world is a manifestation of the three modes goodness, passion and ignorance, and the Supreme Lord, for the creation, maintenance and destruction of the material world, accepts three predominating forms as BrahmÄ, Viṣṇu and Åšaá¹…kara (Åšiva). As Viṣṇu He enters into every body materially created. As GarbhodakaÅ›ÄyÄ« Viṣṇu He enters into every universe, and as KṣīrodakaÅ›ÄyÄ« Viṣṇu He enters the body of every living being. Lord ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa, being the origin of all viṣṇu-tattvas, is addressed here as paraḥ pumÄn, or Puruá¹£ottama, as described in the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (15.18). He is the complete whole. The puruá¹£ÄvatÄras are therefore His plenary expansions. Bhakti-yoga is the only process by which one can become competent to know Him. Because the empiric philosophers and mystic yogÄ«s cannot conceive of the Personality of Godhead, He is called anupalaká¹£ya-vartmane, the Lord of the inconceivable way, or bhakti-yoga.
