Bhagavatapurana 3.32.28_2

3.32.28_2

jñānam ekaṃ parācīnair indriyair brahma nirguṇam /
avabhāty artha-rūpeṇa bhrāntyā śabdādi-dharmiṇā //

Verse 28. _V._ notes that this verse explains how the jiva is affected by Prithvi and other environments while the Lord is not ब्रह्म is here taken in the sense of jiva who is subject to illusion, while the Lord is not though in the midst of the same environments. _D._ takes this verse as intended to point out that the Lord’s Avataras are all identical and the same perfect and all powerful original. To translate:—It is Intelligence, the true and absolute existence and perfect bliss. It is the Supreme Being; It is also Brahman i.e. capable of appearing as many and at the same time it is perfect, unassailed by the Gunas of Prakriti and not invested with a body of Prakriti. It appears as one invested with the gross body to the senses accustomed to the perception of gross things of the ignorant who are familiar only with the gross objects of the senses and who are therefore deluded.

Verse 29 _V._ स्वराट् Brahma _Note_:—The universe is truly the body of that Being from whom it has evolved. यथा is taken in the sense of यथावत्, true or truly. things possessed of sound and other attributes, just as the (one) Mahat-Tattva appears as Ahankara of three kinds, as the five Bhutas as the jiva and as the elven Indriyas out of which the body of the jiva, *viz.* the egg of the universe is produced.