māyā manaḥ sṛjati karmamayaṁ balīyaḥ
māyā manaḥ sṛjati karmamayaṁ balīyaḥ
kālena codita-guṇānumatena puṁsaḥ
chandomayaṁ yad ajayārpita-ṣoḍaśāraṁ
saṁsāra-cakram aja ko 'titaret tvad-anyaḥ
Māyā, whose guṇas are agitated by the glance of your puruṣa expansion in the form of time, creates the insurmountable subtle body made of mind and other elements, composed of desires, which causes secular and religious actions, which in turn becomes the wheel of saṁsāra with sixteen spokes or transformations caused by ignorance. What person, who does not take shelter of you, can surpass this?
“If I am the form of everything, then I am also saṁsāra. Why then do you want liberation from my form of saṁsāra?” This is answered in two verses. Māyā, your external energy, creates the subtle body, the covering on the jīva, made of mind, mahat-tattva and other elements. She makes mundane and Vedic activities, made of māyā. These are difficult to overcome (balīyaḥ). She has guṇas which are agitated by the glance (anumatena) of the Lord’s expansion (puṁsaḥ). Chandomayam means “made of desires.” Amara-koṣa says that chanda means verses and desire. This becomes the wheel of saṁsāra with sixteen transformations (arā) taking shelter of avidyā (ajayā). Who can overcome it? Those separate from you, those who do not worship you (tvad-anyaḥ), cannot overcome it. Your pure devotees however can overcome it.
|| 7.9.22 ||
sa tvaṁ hi nitya-vijitātma-guṇaḥ sva-dhāmnā
kālo vaśī-kṛta-visṛjya-visarga-śaktiḥ
cakre visṛṣṭam ajayeśvara ṣoḍaśāre
niṣpīḍyamānam upakarṣa vibho prapannam
O Lord! O supreme power! You conquer the material guṇas contained in the jīva’s intelligence at all times by your svarūpa-śakti. You are time who agitates the guṇas. You destroy ignorance in the subtle body. Please bring near you that person who has been thrown in the wheel in the wheel of sixteen spokes by ignorance and is being squeezed like a piece of sugar cane.
Because māyā is your energy, the wheel of saṁsāra made of māyā is also you. However, it is different from you svarūpa-śakti. Therefore free me from it, and take me to your feet in the spiritual world. Though māyā creates the material subtle body for the jīva, you conquer the material guṇas in the intelligence of the jīva by your svarūpa-śakti (sva-dhāmnā). You are time, which agitates the guṇas. You remove ignorance (visarga-śakti) in the subtle body of the jīva, the effect of māyā (vaśi-kṛta-viṣrjya). Bring the person being squeezed like a piece of sugar cane near to you.
|| 7.9.23 ||
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