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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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यथा गोपायति विभुर्यथा संयच्छते पुनः यां यां शक्तिमुपाश्रित्य पुरुशक्तिः परः पुमान् आत्मानं क्रीडयन्क्रीडन्करोति विकरोति च
yathā gopāyati vibhur yathā saṁyacchate punaḥ yāṁ yāṁ śaktim upāśritya puru-śaktiḥ paraḥ pumān ātmānaṁ krīḍayan krīḍan karoti vikaroti ca
WORD BY WORD
yathā as; gopāyati maintains; vibhuḥ the great; yathā as; saṁyacchate winds up; punaḥ again; yām yām as; śaktim energies; upāśritya by employing; puru-śaktiḥ the all-powerful; paraḥ the Supreme; pumān Personality of Godhead; ātmānam plenary expansion; krīḍayan having engaged them; krīḍan as also personally being engaged; karoti does them; vikaroti and causes to be done; ca and;
TRANSLATION
| Kindly describe how the Supreme Lord, who is all-powerful, engages His different energies and different expansions in maintaining and again winding up the phenomenal world in the sporting spirit of a player.
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PURPORT
| In the Kaṭha Upaniṣad [2.2.13] the Supreme Lord is described as the chief eternal being amongst all other eternal individual beings (nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām) and the one Supreme Lord who maintains innumerable other individual living beings (eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān). So all living entities, both in the conditioned state and in the liberated state, are maintained by the Almighty Supreme Lord. Such maintenance is effected by the Lord through His different expansions of Self and three principal energies, namely the internal, external and marginal energies. The living entities are His marginal energies, and some of them, in the confidence of the Lord, are entrusted with the work of creation also, as are Brahmā, Marīci, etc., and the acts of creation are inspired by the Lord unto them (tene brahma hṛdā). The external energy (māyā) is also impregnated with the jīvas, or conditioned souls. The unconditioned marginal potency acts in the spiritual kingdom, and the Lord, by His different plenary expansions, maintains them in different transcendental relations displayed in the spiritual sky. So the one Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself in many (bahu syām), and thus all diversities are in Him, and He is in all diversities, although He is nevertheless different from all of them. That is the inconceivable mystic power of the Lord, and as such everything is simultaneously one with and different from Him by His inconceivable potencies (acintya-bhedābheda-tattva).
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