ससर्ज येनानुसृजाम विश्वम् ।
वयं न यस्यापि पुरः समीहतः
पश्याम लिङ्गं पृथगीशमानिनः ॥२५॥
ya eka Ä«Å›o nija-mÄyayÄ naḥ
sasarja yenÄnusá¹›jÄma viÅ›vam
vayaá¹ na yasyÄpi puraḥ samÄ«hataḥ
paÅ›yÄma liá¹…gaá¹ pá¹›thag Ä«Å›a-mÄninaḥ
yaḥ - He who; ekaḥ - one; Ä«Å›aḥ - controller; nija-mÄyayÄ - by His transcendental potency; naḥ - us; sasarja - created; yena - by whom (through whose mercy); anusá¹›jÄma - we also create; viÅ›vam - the universe; vayam - we; na - not; yasya - of whom; api - although; puraḥ - in front of us; samÄ«hataḥ - of Him who is acting; paÅ›yÄma - see; liá¹…gam - the form; pá¹›thak - separate; Ä«Å›a - as controllers; mÄninaḥ - thinking of ourselves.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who created us by His external potency and by whose mercy we expand the creation of the universe, is always situated before us as the Supersoul, but we cannot see His form. We are unable to see Him because all of us think that we are separate and independent gods.
Here is an explanation of why the conditioned soul cannot see the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face. Even though the Lord appears before us as Lord Kṛṣṇa or Lord RÄmacandra and lives in human society as a leader or king, the conditioned soul cannot understand Him. AvajÄnanti mÄá¹ mÅ«á¸hÄ mÄnuṣīṠtanum ÄÅ›ritam: rascals (mÅ«á¸has) deride the Supreme Personality of Godhead, thinking Him an ordinary human being. However insignificant we are, we think that we are also God, that we can create a universe or that we can create another God. This is why we cannot see or understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this regard, ÅšrÄ«la MadhvÄcÄrya says:
liá¹…gam eva paÅ›yÄmaḥ
kadÄcid abhimÄnas tu
devÄnÄm api sann iva
prÄyaḥ kÄleá¹£u nÄsty eva
tÄratamyena so ’pi tu
We are all conditioned to various degrees, but we think that we are God. This is why we cannot understand who God is or see Him face to face.
