प्रेरितोऽजनयत्स्वाभिर्मात्राभिरधिपूरुषम् ॥४॥
prabuddha-karmÄ daivena
trayovimśatiko gaṇaḥ
prerito 'janayat svÄbhir
mÄtrÄbhir adhipÅ«ruá¹£am
prabuddha - awakened; karmÄ - activities; daivena - by the will of the Supreme; trayaḥ-vimÅ›atikaḥ - by the twenty-three principal ingredients; gaṇaḥ - the combination; preritaḥ - induced by; ajanayat - manifested; svÄbhiḥ - by His personal; mÄtrÄbhiḥ - plenary expansion; adhipÅ«ruá¹£am - the gigantic universal form (viÅ›va-rÅ«pa).
When the twenty-three principal elements were set in action by the will of the Supreme, the gigantic universal form, or the viśvarūpa body of the Lord, came into existence.
The virÄá¹-rÅ«pa or viÅ›va-rÅ«pa, the gigantic universal form of the Lord, which is very much appreciated by the impersonalist, is not an eternal form of the Lord. It is manifested by the supreme will of the Lord after the ingredients of material creation. Lord Kṛṣṇa exhibited this virÄá¹ or viÅ›va-rÅ«pa to Arjuna just to convince the impersonalists that He is the original Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa exhibited the virÄá¹-rÅ«pa; it is not that Kṛṣṇa was exhibited by the virÄá¹-rÅ«pa. The virÄá¹-rÅ«pa is not, therefore, an eternal form of the Lord exhibited in the spiritual sky; it is a material manifestation of the Lord. The arcÄ-vigraha, or the worshipable Deity in the temple, is a similar manifestation of the Lord for the neophytes. But in spite of their material touch, such forms of the Lord as the virÄá¹ and arcÄ are all nondifferent from His eternal form as Lord Kṛṣṇa.
