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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.20.22

కాయే బలిస్తస్య మహావిభూతే: సహర్త్విగాచార్యసదస్య ఏతత్ । దదర్శ విశ్వం త్రిగుణం గుణాత్మకే భూతేన్ద్రియార్థాశయజీవయుక్తమ్ ॥ ౨౨ ॥
kāye balis tasya mahā-vibhūteḥ
[kaaye balis tasya mahaa-vibhooteh]
sahartvig-ācārya-sadasya etat
[sahartvig-aachaarya-sadasya etat]
dadarśa viśvaṁ tri-guṇaṁ guṇātmake
[dadarsha vishvam tri-gunam gunaatmake]
bhūtendriyārthāśaya-jīva-yuktam
[bhootendriyaarthaashaya-jeeva-yuktam]
kāye — in the body baliḥ — Mahārāja Bali tasya — of the Personality of Godhead mahā-vibhūteḥ — of that person who is equipped with all wonderful opulences saha-ṛtvik-ācārya-sadasyaḥ — with all the priests, ācāryas and members of the holy assembly etat — this dadarśa — saw viśvam — the whole universe tri-guṇam — made of three modes of material nature guṇa-ātmake — in that which is the source of all such qualities bhūta — with all the gross material elements indriya — with the senses artha — with the sense objects āśaya — with mind, intelligence and false ego jīva-yuktam — with all the living entities.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
kāye balis tasya mahā-vibhūteḥ
kāye
in the body
baliḥ
Mahārāja Bali
tasya
of the Personality of Godhead
mahā-vibhūteḥ
of that person who is equipped with all wonderful opulences
sahartvig-ācārya-sadasya etat
saha-ṛtvik-ācārya-sadasyaḥ
with all the priests, ācāryas and members of the holy assembly
etat
this
dadarśa viśvaṁ tri-guṇaṁ guṇātmake
dadarśa
saw
viśvam
the whole universe
tri-guṇam
made of three modes of material nature
guṇa-ātmake
in that which is the source of all such qualities
bhūtendriyārthāśaya-jīva-yuktam
bhūta
with all the gross material elements
indriya
with the senses
artha
with the sense objects
āśaya
with mind, intelligence and false ego
jīva-yuktam
with all the living entities.
Bali Mahārāja, along with all the priests, ācāryas and members of the assembly, observed the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s universal body, which was full of six opulences. That body contained everything within the universe, including all the gross material elements, the senses, the sense objects, the mind, intelligence and false ego, the various kinds of living entities, and the actions and reactions of the three modes of material nature.

In Bhagavad-gītā, the Supreme Personality of Godhead says, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate: Kṛṣṇa is the origin of everything. Vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti: Kṛṣṇa is everything. Mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ: everything rests in the body of the Lord, yet the Lord is not everywhere. Māyāvādī philosophers think that since the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, has become everything, He has no separate existence. Their philosophy is called advaita-vāda. Actually, however, their philosophy is not correct. Here, Bali Mahārāja was the seer of the Personality of Godhead’s universal body, and that body was that which was seen. Thus there is dvaita-vāda; there are always two entities — the seer and the seen. The seer is a part of the whole, but he is not equal to the whole. The part of the whole, the seer, is also one with the whole, but since he is but a part, he cannot be the complete whole at any time. This acintya-bhedābheda — simultaneous oneness and difference — is the perfect philosophy propounded by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Bali Mahārāja, along with all the priests, ācāryas and members of the assembly, observed within the supreme controller of the guṇas the universe composed of the three guṇas--including all gross material elements, the senses, the sense objects, the antaḥkaraṇa and the jīvas. Guṇātmake means “in the supreme controller of the guṇas.” That form was endowed with the elements, senses, sense objects such as sound, the antaḥkaraṇa (āśaya) and the jīvas.
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