मनसो देहतश्चेदं जज्ञे विश्वकृतो जगत् ॥२७॥
chÄyÄyÄḥ kardamo jajñe
devahÅ«tyÄḥ patiḥ prabhuḥ
manaso dehataÅ› cedaá¹
jajñe viśva-kṛto jagat
chÄyÄyÄḥ - by the shadow; kardamaḥ - Kardama Muni; jajñe - became manifested; devahÅ«tyÄḥ - of DevahÅ«ti; patiḥ - husband; prabhuḥ - the master; manasaḥ - from the mind; dehataḥ - from the body; ca - also; idam - this; jajñe - developed; viÅ›va - the universe; ká¹›taḥ - of the creator; jagat - cosmic manifestation.
Sage Kardama, husband of the great DevahÅ«ti, was manifested from the shadow of BrahmÄ. Thus all became manifested from either the body or the mind of BrahmÄ.
Although one of the three modes of material nature is always prominent, they are never represented unalloyed by one another. Even in the most prominent existence of the two lower qualities, the modes of passion and ignorance, there is sometimes a tinge of the mode of goodness. Therefore all the sons generated from the body or the mind of BrahmÄ were in the modes of passion and ignorance, but some of them, like Kardama, were born in the mode of goodness. NÄrada was born in the transcendental state of BrahmÄ.
