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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.27
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 27
- yathātma-māyā-yogena
- nānā-śakty-upabṛṁhitam
- vilumpan visṛjan gṛhṇan
- bibhrad ātmānam ātmanā
yathāas much as — as much as; ātmaown — own; māyāpotency — potency; yogenaby combination — by combination; nānāvarious — various; śaktienergy — energy; upabṛṁhitamby combination and permutation — by combination and permutation; vilumpanin the matter of annihilation — in the matter of annihilation; visṛjanin the matter of generation — in the matter of generation; gṛhṇanin the matter of acceptance — in the matter of acceptance; bibhratin the matter of maintenance — in the matter of maintenance; ātmānamown self — own self; ātmanāby the self — by the self.
And [please inform me] how You, by Your own Self, manifest different energies for annihilation, generation, acceptance and maintenance by combination and permutation.
The whole manifestation is the Lord Himself by diffusion of His different energies only, namely the internal, external and marginal, just as the sunlight is the manifestation of the energy of the sun planet. Such energy is simultaneously one with and different from the Lord, just as the sunshine is simultaneously one with and different from the sun planet. The energies are acting by combination and permutation by the indication of the Lord, and the acting agents, like Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva, are also different incarnations of the Lord. In other words, there is nothing but the Lord, and still the Lord is different from all such manifestive activities. How it is so will be explained later on.