शश्वन्निवृत्ततमसः सदनुग्रहाय ।
आदौ गृहीतमवतारशतैकबीजं
यन्नाभिपद्मभवनादहमाविरासम् ॥२॥
rūpaṠyad etad avabodha-rasodayena
Å›aÅ›van-nivá¹›tta-tamasaḥ sad-anugrahÄya
Ädau gá¹›hÄ«tam avatÄra-Å›ataika-bÄ«jaá¹
yan-nÄbhi-padma-bhavanÄd aham ÄvirÄsam
rÅ«pam - form; yat - which; etat - that; avabodha-rasa - of Your internal potency; udayena - with the manifestation; Å›aÅ›vat - forever; nivá¹›tta - freed from; tamasaḥ - material contamination; sat-anugrahÄya - for the sake of the devotees; Ädau - original in the creative energy of matter; gá¹›hÄ«tam - accepted; avatÄra - of incarnations; Å›ata-eka-bÄ«jam - the root cause of hundreds; yat - that which; nÄbhi-padma - the navel lotus flower; bhavanÄt - from the home; aham - myself; ÄvirÄsam - generated.
The form which I see is eternally freed from material contamination and has advented to show mercy to the devotees as a manifestation of internal potency. This incarnation is the origin of many other incarnations, and I am born from the lotus flower grown from Your navel home.
The three deities BrahmÄ, Viṣṇu and MaheÅ›vara (Åšiva), the executive heads of the three modes of material nature (passion, goodness and ignorance), are all generated from GarbhodakaÅ›ÄyÄ« Viṣṇu, who is described herein by BrahmÄ. From the KṣīrodakaÅ›ÄyÄ« Viṣṇu, many Viṣṇu incarnations expand at different ages in the duration of the cosmic manifestation. They are expanded only for the transcendental happiness of the pure devotees. The incarnations of Viṣṇu, who appear at different ages and times, are never to be compared to the conditioned souls. The viṣṇu-tattvas are not to be compared to deities like BrahmÄ and Åšiva, nor are they on the same level. Anyone who compares them is called a pÄá¹£aṇá¸Ä«, or infidel. Tamasaḥ, mentioned herein, is the material nature, and the spiritual nature has a completely separate existence from tamaḥ. Therefore, spiritual nature is called avabodha-rasa, or avarodha-rasa. Avarodha means “that which completely nullifies.†In the Transcendence there is no chance of material contact by any means. BrahmÄ is the first living being, and therefore he mentions his birth from the lotus flower generated from the abdomen of GarbhodakaÅ›ÄyÄ« Viṣṇu.
