ekah -- alone; narayanah -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; devah -- God; purva -- previously; srishtam -- created; sta-mayaya -- by His own potency; samhritya -- withdrawing within Himself; kala -- of time; kalaya -- by the portion; kalpa-ante -- at the time of annihilation; idam -- this universe; isvarah -- the supreme controller; ekah -- alone; eva -- indeed; advitiyah -- without a second; abhut -- became; atma-adharah -- one whose self is the reservoir and resting place of everything; akhila -- of all potencies; asrayah -- the reservoir.

The Lord of the universe, Narayana, is the worshipable God of all living entities. Without extraneous assistance, the Lord creates this universe by His own potency, and at the time of annihilation the Lord destroys the universe through His personal expansion of time and withdraws all of the cosmos, including all the conditioned living entities, within Himself. Thus, His unlimited Self is the shelter and reservoir of all potencies. The subtle pradhana, the basis of all cosmic manifestation, is conserved within the Lord and is in this way not different from Him. In the aftermath of annihilation the Lord stands alone.