| 6. Though I am
unborn, of imperishable nature, and though I am the Lord of all beings,
yet ruling over My own nature, I am born by My own Maya.Though I am unborn,
though by nature my power of vision (jnenasakti) is undecaying, though I
am by nature the Lord of all creatures from Brahma down to grass, yet ruling
over by naturethe Prakriti, the Maya of Vishnu, which is made up of the
three energies of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, to which this whole universe
is subject, and by which deluded the whole world knows not Vasudeva, its
own Self,I appear to be born and embodied, through my own Maya, but not
in reality, unlike others.When and for what purpose is He so born ?The answer
follows: |