कल्पान्ते कालसृष्टेन योऽन्धेन तमसावृतम् ।
अभिव्यनग्जगदिदं स्वयञ्ज्योतिः स्वरोचिषा ॥२६॥
आत्मना त्रिवृता चेदं सृजत्यवति लुम्पति ।
रजःसत्त्वतमोधाम्ने पराय महते नमः ॥२७॥
Å›rÄ«-hiraṇyakaÅ›ipur uvÄca
kalpÄnte kÄla-sṛṣá¹ena
yo 'ndhena tamasÄvá¹›tam
abhivyanag jagad idaá¹
svayañjyotiḥ sva-rociá¹£Ä
ÄtmanÄ tri-vá¹›tÄ cedaá¹
sá¹›jaty avati lumpati
rajaḥ-sattva-tamo-dhÄmne
parÄya mahate namaḥ
Å›rÄ«-hiraṇyakaÅ›ipuḥ uvÄca - HiraṇyakaÅ›ipu said; kalpa-ante - at the end of every day of Lord BrahmÄ; kÄla-sṛṣá¹ena - created by the time factor; yaḥ - he who; andhena - by dense darkness; tamasÄ - by ignorance; Ävá¹›tam - covered; abhivyanak - manifested; jagat - cosmic manifestation; idam - this; svayam-jyotiḥ - self-effulgent; sva-rociá¹£Ä - by his bodily rays; ÄtmanÄ - by himself; tri-vá¹›tÄ - conducted by the three modes of material nature; ca - also; idam - this material world; sá¹›jati - creates; avati - maintain s; lumpati - annihilates; rajaḥ - of the mode of passion; sattva - the mode of goodness; tamaḥ - and the mode of ignorance; dhÄmne - unto the supreme lord; parÄya - unto the supreme; mahate - unto the great; namaḥ - my respectful obeisances.
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the supreme lord within this universe. At the end of each day of his life, the universe is fully covered with dense darkness by the influence of time, and then again, during his next day, that self-effulgent lord, by his own effulgence, manifests, maintains and destroys the entire cosmic manifestation through the material energy, which is invested with the three modes of material nature. He, Lord BrahmÄ, is the shelter of those modes of nature — sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa.
The words abhivyanag jagad idam refer to he who creates this cosmic manifestation. The original creator is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa (janmÄdy asya yataḥ); Lord BrahmÄ is the secondary creator. When Lord BrahmÄ is empowered by Lord Kṛṣṇa as the engineer to create the phenomenal world, he becomes the supremely powerful feature within this universe. The total material energy is created by Kṛṣṇa, and later, taking advantage of all that has necessarily been created, Lord BrahmÄ engineers the entire phenomenal universe. At the end of Lord BrahmÄ’s day, everything up to Svargaloka is inundated with water, and the next morning, when there is darkness in the universe, BrahmÄ again brings the phenomenal manifestation into existence. Therefore he is described here as he who manifests this universe.
TrÄ«n guṇÄn vṛṇoti: Lord BrahmÄ takes advantage of the three modes of material nature. Praká¹›ti, material nature, is described here as tri-vá¹›tÄ, the source of the three material modes. ÅšrÄ«la MadhvÄcÄrya comments in this connection that tri-vá¹›tÄ means praká¹›tyÄ. Thus Lord Kṛṣṇa is the original creator, and Lord BrahmÄ is the original engineer.
