Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.59.29
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sisṛkṣuḥ
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desiring to create
Desiderative of √sṛj (to create). The form itself encodes the verse's point — creation begins with the Lord's intention; it is not a mechanical emanation.
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asaṁvṛtaḥ
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uncovered (by the modes)
A- (not) + sam + √vṛ (covered together). The crucial Gauḍīya word: even when Bhagavān 'assumes' a guṇa, He is not covered by it — He stands clear of His own instrumentation. Sets Vaiṣṇava theology against any pantheist conflation.
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pradhānam
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material nature (in its undifferentiated state)
Pradhāna — Sāṅkhya's term for primal prakṛti. Bhūmi names the technical Sāṅkhya categories (kāla, pradhāna, puruṣa) and then declares Him distinct from all three — Vaiṣṇavism's classical move against any monist collapse.
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jagat - pate
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O Lord of the universe
Compound: jagat (universe, lit. 'the moving') + pati (lord). Jagat literally means 'that which goes' — the universe as motion. Bhagavān is its master.
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paraḥ
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transcendent, separate
From pṛ (to lead beyond). The verse's final word — Bhūmi insists on the Lord's distinct, transcendent identity even after listing every category He inhabits.
The word jagataḥ in the third line of this verse indicates that the functions of creation, maintenance and annihilation are here mentioned in a cosmic context. The word utkaṭam indicates that when a particular function is being carried out, whether universal creation, maintenance or annihilation, the particular material quality associated with that function becomes predominant.
According to the time, you carry out creation, maintenance and destruction of the universe through your maya sakti. You contain the activated raja, tama and sattva gunas, but are not covered by them like the jivas. Time, maya and the jivas are all eternal and are yourself, being your energies, but you are different from all these energies by your svarupa sakti (parah).
You alone (vai) accept rajoguṇa (utkaṭam) since creation cannot take place with equilibrium. O lord, you are capable of creating this variegated universe (prabho). By your nature you protect the universe (jagat-pate). You are not covered by the actions of creation, maintenance and destruction. Or though you accept ignorance for destruction, you are not covered by it.
- Where do you assume engagement means entanglement?
- How could you use the modes without being used by them?
A king plays three roles in his own court — he commissions the play, performs the play, and watches the play — yet remains the king throughout. Bhagavān assumes rajas to create, tamas to dissolve, sattva to maintain; the modes are His costumes, never His skin. Gauḍīyas insist on this distinction against any reading that makes Him reducible to prakṛti's drift.
My note
Source: vedabase.io