Devanagari
यदैतेऽसङ्गता भावा भूतेन्द्रियमनोगुणा: ।
यदायतननिर्माणे न शेकुर्ब्रह्मवित्तम ॥ ३२ ॥
Verse text
yadaite ’saṅgatā bhāvā
bhūtendriya-mano-guṇāḥ
yadāyatana-nirmāṇe
na śekur brahma-vittama
Synonyms
yadā
—
as long as
;
ete
—
all these
;
asaṅgatāḥ
—
without being assembled
;
bhāvāḥ
—
remained so situated
;
bhūta
—
elements
;
indriya
—
senses
;
manaḥ
—
mind
;
guṇāḥ
—
modes of nature
;
yadā
—
so long
;
āyatana
—
the body
;
nirmāṇe
—
in being formed
;
na śekuḥ
—
was not possible
;
brahma
—
vit — tama — O Nārada, the best knower of transcendental knowledge .
Translation
O Nārada, best of the transcendentalists, the forms of the body cannot take place as long as these created parts, namely the elements, senses, mind and modes of nature, are not assembled.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
O best of the brāhmaṇas! As long as the gross elements, senses and mind were not mixed together, it was not possible for them to produce material bodies. Coming together by the impulse of the Lord’s energy, accepting primary and secondary forms, they created the body of the whole universe and the individual bodies in it.
Purport
The different types of bodily construction of the living entities are exactly like different types of motorcars manufactured by assembling the allied motor parts. When the car is ready, the driver sits in the car and moves it as he desires. This is also confirmed in the
Bhagavad-gītā
(18.61)
: the living entity is as if seated on the machine of the body, and the car of the body is moving by the control of material nature, just as the railway trains are moving under the direction of the controller. The living entities, however, are not the bodies; they are separate from the cars of the body. But the less intelligent material scientist cannot understand the process of assembling the parts of the body, namely the senses, the mind and the qualities of the material modes. Every living entity is a spiritual spark, part and parcel of the Supreme Being, and by the kindness of the Lord, for the Father is kind to His sons, the individual living beings are given a little freedom to act according to their will to lord it over the material nature. Just as a father gives some playthings to the crying child to satisfy him, the whole material creation is made possible by the will of the Lord to allow the bewildered living entities to lord it over things as they desire, although under the control of the agent of the Lord. The living entities are exactly like small children playing the material field under the control of the maidservant of the Lord (nature). They accept the
māyā,
or the maidservant, as all in all and thus wrongly conceive the Supreme Truth to be feminine (goddess Durgā, etc.). The foolish, childlike materialists cannot reach beyond the conception of the maidservant, material nature, but the intelligent grown-up sons of the Lord know well that all the acts of material nature are controlled by the Lord, just as a maidservant is under the control of the master, the father of the undeveloped children.
The parts of the body, such as the senses, are the creation of the
mahat-tattva,
and when they are assembled by the will of the Lord, the material body comes into existence, and the living entity is allowed to use it for further activities. This is explained as follows.
Commentary (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The kāraṇa-sṛṣṭi has been described. Now the kārya-sṛṣṭi is described. When these ingredients were unmixed (asaṅgatā), and when it was not possible for them to make the bodies (āyatana), then the Lord entered them. They became combined by his compacting energy, and taking primary and secondary forms, created the body of the universe as a whole and the individual bodies.