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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.42
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 42
- saṁsthāpayaināṁ jagatāṁ sa-tasthuṣāṁ
- lokāya patnīm asi mātaraṁ pitā
- vidhema cāsyai namasā saha tvayā
- yasyāṁ sva-tejo 'gnim ivāraṇāv adhāḥ
saṁsthāpayaraise this earth enāmraise this earth — raise this earth; jagatāmboth the moving and — both the moving and; sanonmoving-tasthuṣāmnonmoving — nonmoving; lokāyafor their residence — for their residence; patnīmwife — wife; asiYou are — You are; mātaramthe mother — the mother; pitāthe father — the father; vidhemado we offer — do we offer; caalso — also; asyaiunto the mother — unto the mother; namasāwith all obeisances — with all obeisances; sahaalong with — along with; tvayāwith You — with You; yasyāmin whom — in whom; svaby Your own potency-tejaḥby Your own potency — by Your own potency; agnimfire — fire; ivalikened — likened; araṇauin the araṇi wood — in the araṇi wood; adhāḥinvested — invested.
O Lord, for the residential purposes of all inhabitants, both moving and nonmoving, this earth is Your wife, and You are the supreme father. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You, along with mother earth, in whom You have invested Your own potency, just as an expert sacrificer puts fire in the araṇi wood.
The so-called law of gravitation which sustains the planets is described herein as the potency of the Lord. This potency is invested by the Lord in the way that an expert sacrificial brāhmaṇa puts fire in the araṇi wood by the potency of Vedic mantras. By this arrangement the world becomes habitable for both the moving and nonmoving creatures. The conditioned souls, who are residents of the material world, are put in the womb of mother earth in the same way the seed of a child is put by the father in the womb of the mother. This conception of the Lord and the earth as father and mother is explained in Bhagavad-gītā (BG 14.4, Not yet available in the library. Try the live source.). Conditioned souls are devoted to the motherland in which they take their birth, but they do not know their father. The mother is not independent in producing children. Similarly, material nature cannot produce living creatures unless in contact with the supreme father, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam teaches us to offer obeisances unto the mother along with the Father, the Supreme Lord, because it is the Father only who impregnates the mother with all energies for the sustenance and maintenance of all living beings, both moving and nonmoving.