SB 1.3.3 (1962)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 3
Yasya avayava samsthanaih kalpito loka vistarah
Tadbai bhagabato rupam visudhawam satwamurjitam.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Yasya—whose, Avayava—bodily expansion, Samasthanaih—situated in, Kalpato—is imagined, Tadbai—but that is, Bhagbato—of the personality of Godhead, Rupam—form, Visuddham—purely, Satwam—existence, Urjitam—excellence.
TRANSLATION
It is conceived that all the universal planetary systems are situated on the extensive bodily features of the Purusha but He has nothing to do with the created material ingredients. His body is eternally in spiritual existence per excellence.
PURPORT
The conception of Virata Rupa or Viswa Rupa of the Sureme Absolute Truth is specially meant for the neophyte materialist who can hardly think of the transcendental Form of the personality of Godhead. To them a form means something of this material world and as such an opposite conception of the absolute is necessary for them in the beginning to concentrate their mind in the power extention of the Lord. As stated above the Lord extends His potency in the form of Mahat Tatwa which includes all material ingredients. The extention of power by the Lord and the Lord Himself personally are one in one sense but at the same time the Mahat Tatwa is different also from the Lord. Therefore the potency of the Lord and the Lord are non-different. The conception of the Virata Rupa specially for impersonalist is thus non different from the eternal Form of the Lord. This eternal Form of the Lord exists prior to the creation of the Mahat Tatwa and it is stressed here that the eternal Form of the Lord is per excellence spiritual or transcendental to the modes of material nature. The very same transcendental Form of the Lord is manifested by His internal Potency and the formation of His multifarious manifestation of incarnations are always of the same transcendental quality without any touch of the Mahattattwa.