Canto 3: The Status QuoChapter 6: Creation of the Universal Form

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.23

buddhiḿ cāsya vinirbhinnāḿ

vāg-īśo dhiṣṇyam āviśat

bodhenāḿśena boddhavyam

pratipattir yato bhavet

SYNONYMS

buddhim — intelligence; ca — also; asya — of the gigantic form; vinirbhinnām — being separately manifested; vāk-īśaḥBrahmā, lord of the Vedas; dhiṣṇyam — the controlling power; āviśat — entered in; bodhena aḿśena — with his part of intelligence; boddhavyam — the matter of understanding; pratipattiḥ — understood; yataḥ — by which; bhavetso becomes.

TRANSLATION

When the intelligence of the gigantic form separately became manifest, Brahmā, the lord of the Vedas, entered into it with the partial power of understanding, and thus an object of understanding is experienced by the living entities.

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